Manchester, NJ, USA
Not surprised but impressed with the aerial maneuvers the brilliance and their technology.
Report quality: Moderate43/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-11-22
- Where
- Manchester, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 42.996, -71.455 · fallback
- Slug
- cigar-over-manchester-nj-2015-6bf89e
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
- Manchester, NJ has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2015 brought 130 reports from New Jersey.
- The 2010s skewed 1.9% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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