Trenton, NJ, USA
It was an overcast day. I and 3 other members of my family were on the front porch. I noticed a long white object in the sky at 2:00.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-15
- Where
- Trenton, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.217, -74.743 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-trenton-nj-2004-b5253f
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
- Trenton, NJ has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 86 reports from New Jersey.
- The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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