CaseTeardrop2005

Wayne, NJ, USA

I was sitting in my bed when a bright array of lights caught my eyes. I looked out the window and noticed a flying object no more than

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-03-01
Where
Wayne, NJ, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.925, -74.277 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-wayne-nj-2005-f420a0
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

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Wayne, NJ.
  • This case is one of 87 New Jersey reports filed in 2005.
  • Teardrop craft made up 1.1% of 2000s reports, vs 0.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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