Forked River, NJ, USA
2 objects diamond shape, moved in Z pattern and took off one to right one to left sidewards.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-12-15
- Where
- Forked River, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 39.840, -74.190 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-forked-river-nj-2012-aef4b0
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
- Forked River, NJ shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 159 reports came from New Jersey in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.