CaseUnknown2004
Hopatcong, NJ, USA
silet oject with red light northern NJ
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (38 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-09
- Where
- Hopatcong, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 40.933, -74.659 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-hopatcong-nj-2004-0d22b5
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
- One of 3 documented reports from Hopatcong, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 86 sightings in 2004.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.