CaseCigar2020
Nutley, NJ, USA
AN UNEXPECTED EVENT IN THE NIGHT SKY....
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-08
- Where
- Nutley, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 7 seconds
- Geo
- 40.822, -74.160 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-nutley-nj-2020-317d7a
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 4 documented reports from Nutley, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 144 sightings in 2020.
- Cigar sightings ran at 2.6% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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