UFOMYST
CaseCircle2018

Kinnelon, NJ, USA

Definitive Bright White Silver Circle UFO Sighting Over 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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-09-05
Where
Kinnelon, NJ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
<30 seconds
Geo
41.002, -74.367 · exact
Slug
circle-over-kinnelon-nj-2018-3b7954
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Kinnelon, NJ shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 58 reports came from New Jersey in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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