West Orange, NJ, USA
UFO Triangular flying objects with red flashing lights in Northern New Jersey
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: 4500s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-01-06
- Where
- West Orange, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 Hour 15 min
- Geo
- 40.799, -74.239 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-west-orange-nj-2004-28dbe6
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 9 reports logged in West Orange, 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.
Report
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