UFOMYST
CaseFormation2004

Somerset, NJ, USA

Backwards triangular formation moving from east to west, with the back point breaking off and going south.

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-21
Where
Somerset, NJ, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
40.498, -74.488 · exact
Slug
formation-over-somerset-nj-2004-a4b9a1
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

  • Somerset, NJ has 12 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 86 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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