UFOMYST
CaseSphere2012

Somerville, NJ, USA

3 Round orbs orange/orangey red in color hovering over central NJ

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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-03-24
Where
Somerville, NJ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
7 Minutes
Geo
40.574, -74.610 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-somerville-nj-2012-8f3a99
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…

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In context

  • Somerville, NJ shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 159 reports came from New Jersey in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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