UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2021

Mountainside, NJ, USA

After encountering a strange scene on the highway, I couldn’t account for three hours of my time.

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-02
Where
Mountainside, NJ, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
3 Hours
Geo
40.672, -74.357 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-mountainside-nj-2021-c5dfd3
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…

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In context

  • Mountainside, NJ has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 75 reports from New Jersey.

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.