UFOMYST
CaseCircle2009

Rahway, NJ, USA

the object appeared as a streak of light then stopped for 2 secs then took off in another direction and disappeared

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-09-27
Where
Rahway, NJ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
7 seconds
Geo
40.608, -74.278 · exact
Slug
circle-over-rahway-nj-2009-61b19d
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

  • One of 8 documented reports from Rahway, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 119 sightings in 2009.
  • Circle sightings ran at 8.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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