CaseDiamond2017

West Windsor, NJ, USA

((HOAX??)) I thought that it was some crazy helicopter pilot out in the storm. ((NUFORC Note: Report is from 11-year old. PD))

Report quality: Low21/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2017-06-30
Where
West Windsor, NJ, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
40.302, -74.619 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-west-windsor-nj-2017-a13b6c
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…

In context

  • West Windsor, NJ shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 120 reports came from New Jersey in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.

Report

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