Lake Hopatcong, NJ, USA
The object was shaped like a model of a molecule with loud rumbling and a star shape at the center.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-16
- Where
- Lake Hopatcong, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.948, -74.617 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-lake-hopatcong-nj-2004-21627d
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
- One of 4 documented reports from Lake Hopatcong, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 86 sightings in 2004.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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