Bayonne, NJ, USA
Enlarged image of a gray streak in photo shows a clear image of a flying saucer looking craft.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-12
- Where
- Bayonne, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- unknown
- Geo
- 40.669, -74.114 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-bayonne-nj-2016-cff63f
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 20 documented reports from Bayonne, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 129 sightings in 2016.
- Disk sightings ran at 3.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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