CaseSphere2019

Colts neck, NJ, USA

White orb floating in sky turns green and shoots away

Report quality: Moderate62/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2019-10-08
Where
Colts neck, NJ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
40.288, -74.172 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-colts-neck-nj-2019-fb80f5
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Colts neck, NJ reports filed in October 2019.

In context

  • Colts neck, NJ shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 193 reports came from New Jersey in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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