UFOMYST
CaseOther2013

Somerset, NJ, USA

((HOAX??)) Alien spotted.

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (14 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2013-08-27
Where
Somerset, NJ, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
few seconds
Geo
40.498, -74.488 · exact
Slug
other-over-somerset-nj-2013-563740
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 shows up 12 times across the archive.
  • 166 reports came from New Jersey in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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