Randolph, NJ, USA
White Sphere with Jet plane investigating nearby/ 2 photos of sphere/ chem trails left by jet planes in the area.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-21
- Where
- Randolph, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1-2 mins
- Geo
- 40.848, -74.581 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-randolph-nj-2009-158d20
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
- One of 7 documented reports from Randolph, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 119 sightings in 2009.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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