Mahwah, NJ, USA
Perfectly round, clear/white sphere at a very high altitude moving at a very high speed
Report quality: Moderate51/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (87 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-07-14
- Where
- Mahwah, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5-7 SECONDS
- Geo
- 41.089, -74.144 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-mahwah-nj-2007-d84950
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Mahwah, NJ.
- This case is one of 69 New Jersey reports filed in 2007.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.