CaseRectangle2013
West Orange, NJ, USA
Rectangular waving figure.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (26 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-10
- Where
- West Orange, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 40.799, -74.239 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-west-orange-nj-2013-753e68
Wave
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 9 documented reports from West Orange, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 166 sightings in 2013.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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.