Hopatcong, NJ, USA
It was white, almost big (but not huge, smaller than big), made noise when it fell, lumpy (looked like more than one thing, not sure)
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-04-28
- Where
- Hopatcong, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1 week
- Geo
- 40.933, -74.659 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-hopatcong-nj-2011-8ab352
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
- Hopatcong, NJ has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 92 reports from New Jersey.
Report
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