Oradell, NJ, USA
Just a few moments ago while sitting in my car, I noticed a bright light. It was nearly as bright as the sun but of course very tiny in
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-07
- Where
- Oradell, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.959, -74.037 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-oradell-nj-2005-fe53c1
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 2 documented reports from Oradell, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 87 sightings in 2005.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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