CaseSphere2002
Jersey City, NJ, USA
Single white orb appeared out of nowhere, hovering for a moment before shooting out of sight.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-12-03
- Where
- Jersey City, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 40.728, -74.078 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-jersey-city-nj-2002-64e16b
In context
- Jersey City, NJ shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 59 reports came from New Jersey in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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