UFOMYST
CaseDisk2004

Alpha, NJ, USA

I ran to the store, and when I got back my 12 year old son and wife were very excited/nervous saying they had just seen a UFO and caugh

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-02-27
Where
Alpha, NJ, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
20 mins.
Geo
40.667, -75.157 · exact
Slug
disk-over-alpha-nj-2004-670005
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from Alpha, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 86 sightings in 2004.
  • Disk sightings ran at 6.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 5.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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