Bedminster, NJ, USA
I was traveling 206 north off of 287 north in new jersey with my mom at approximately 9pm Saturday night, August 30, 2013. My mom notic
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-30
- Where
- Bedminster, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 40.681, -74.645 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-bedminster-nj-2013-1db4ba
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
- Bedminster, NJ shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 166 reports came from New Jersey in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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