UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Manchester, NJ, USA

I was watch a movie on my phone then I looked up to the sky a big fireball flew by and vanished with seconds

Report quality: Moderate43/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (108 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-09
Where
Manchester, NJ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
42.996, -71.455 · fallback
Slug
fireball-over-manchester-nj-2012-f7090b
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

  • Manchester, NJ shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 159 reports came from New Jersey in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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