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CaseCylinder2017

Manalapan, NJ, USA

CYLINDER SHAPED OBJECTS APPEARED FROM THE E MOVING TOWARDS THE WEST. THEY STOPPED THEN ROSE VERTICALLY. ((anonymous report))

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-04
Where
Manalapan, NJ, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
40.257, -74.396 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-manalapan-nj-2017-ffd12b
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

  • Manalapan, NJ shows up 11 times across the archive.
  • 120 reports came from New Jersey in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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