Collings Lakes, NJ, USA
not a UFO, but what I believe to be an actual alien in my wooded backyard.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-18
- Where
- Collings Lakes, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 39.596, -74.882 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-collings-lakes-nj-2005-ce6bad
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
- Collings Lakes, NJ has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 87 reports from New Jersey.
- The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.