Newark, NJ, USA
a bright light that at first appeared to be a plane, helicopter or star. we saw it for at least half an hour and it never moved. as i
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-13
- Where
- Newark, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- half hour
- Geo
- 40.736, -74.172 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-newark-nj-2006-d47a4d
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
- This is one of 35 reports logged in Newark, NJ.
- This case is one of 73 New Jersey reports filed in 2006.
- Diamond craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
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.