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
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…
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 daysReport
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