CaseUnknown2017

Bridgewater, NJ, USA

It was perfectly still, hovering right over a highway. distracting - slowed traffic. i took a video with my phone as we drove

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-01-15
Where
Bridgewater, NJ, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.601, -74.648 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-bridgewater-nj-2017-72a8c5
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…

In context

  • Bridgewater, NJ shows up 23 times across the archive.
  • 120 reports came from New Jersey in 2017.

Report

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