CaseTriangle2004
Howell, NJ, USA
Two low-flying triangular craft with three bright lights
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 510s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-29
- Where
- Howell, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 7-10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.164, -74.208 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-howell-nj-2004-8dc82b
Wave
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 27 reports logged in Howell, NJ.
- This case is one of 86 New Jersey reports filed in 2004.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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