Elizabeth, NJ, USA
orange spheroid seen flying over elizabeth NJ floating north to south & vanishing after approx 12 minutes
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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-04-02
- Where
- Elizabeth, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 12 minutes
- Geo
- 40.664, -74.211 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-elizabeth-nj-2006-80ccdd
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
- Elizabeth, NJ shows up 19 times across the archive.
- 73 reports came from New Jersey in 2006.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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