UFOMYST
CaseCircle2013

Manchester, NJ, USA

Brilliant light in sky, switched to pulsating red and blue, then ascended.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (74 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-04-24
Where
Manchester, NJ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.996, -71.455 · fallback
Slug
circle-over-manchester-nj-2013-de2214
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…

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In context

  • Manchester, NJ shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 166 reports came from New Jersey in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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