CaseSphere2018

Newark, NJ, USA

We were walking in Branch Brook Park and we saw an sphere like object. It was not moving at first, it was just hoovering. However,in a

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-03-11
Where
Newark, NJ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.736, -74.172 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-newark-nj-2018-410e2a
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…

In context

  • Newark, NJ has 35 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 58 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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.