Bayonne, NJ, USA
Bright light similar in color to the moon just a brighter white light. It flew what seemed to be a lot lower than the stars in the sky,
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-07-28
- Where
- Bayonne, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 1-2 seconds
- Geo
- 40.669, -74.114 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-bayonne-nj-2019-55881e
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 20 documented reports from Bayonne, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 193 sightings in 2019.
- Teardrop sightings ran at 0.8% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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