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CaseSphere2016

South Orange, NJ, USA

My wife and I were walking through the South Mountain reservation, A star like sphere, bright white, flew over our heads a thousand fee

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-17
Where
South Orange, NJ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
40.749, -74.261 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-south-orange-nj-2016-fe7ca8
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

  • South Orange, NJ has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 129 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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