North Bergen, NJ, USA
On my deck looking at ballons in the wind and saw two that did not move in any direction!
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (89 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-05-25
- Where
- North Bergen, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 40.804, -74.012 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-north-bergen-nj-2008-6f9168
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
- North Bergen, NJ shows up 22 times across the archive.
- 104 reports came from New Jersey in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.