Hillsborough, NJ, USA
Sun reflection off a stationary rectangular object in a completely clear blue sky.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-06-19
- Where
- Hillsborough, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 40.478, -74.627 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-hillsborough-nj-2005-dfb3d3
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
- Hillsborough, NJ shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 87 reports came from New Jersey in 2005.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
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.