UFOMYST
CaseDisk2007

Lyndhurst, NJ, USA

UFO sited on fire - forest fire later reported caused by F-16 flare exercise

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (76 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-05-15
Where
Lyndhurst, NJ, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 Minutes
Geo
40.812, -74.124 · exact
Slug
disk-over-lyndhurst-nj-2007-a16889
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

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Lyndhurst, NJ.
  • This case is one of 69 New Jersey reports filed in 2007.
  • Disk craft made up 6.5% of 2000s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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