Avalon, NJ, USA
LOOKING OUT OVER THE ATLANTIC I NOTICED A VERY BRIGHT, GLOWING YELLOW/RED/ORANGISH HEADING NORTH UP THE EASTERN SEABOARD, I LOOKED THRO
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-02-26
- Where
- Avalon, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- 1 MIN
- Geo
- 39.101, -74.718 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-avalon-nj-2006-01e12b
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
- Avalon, NJ has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 73 reports from New Jersey.
- The 2000s skewed 0.5% cone reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.4%.
Report
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