UFOMYST
CaseSphere2015

Montclair, NJ, USA

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Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-01-19
Where
Montclair, NJ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
<1 minute
Geo
40.826, -74.209 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-montclair-nj-2015-4dd48f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 12 reports logged in Montclair, NJ.
  • This case is one of 130 New Jersey reports filed in 2015.
  • Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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