Fords, NJ, USA
Black diamond shape object with bright white light in the middle. Hovered for a few minutes and shot straight up into the sky.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-11
- Where
- Fords, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.529, -74.316 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-fords-nj-2012-e0e352
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
- Fords, NJ has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 159 reports from New Jersey.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Report
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