East Orange, NJ, USA
3 big ball red/orange 2 white small . behind 2 red shapes which all was round. went slow then fast/myself my 7 yr old19 yr old cab d
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-01
- Where
- East Orange, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- going east
- Geo
- 40.767, -74.205 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-east-orange-nj-2017-b20dee
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
- One of 6 documented reports from East Orange, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 120 sightings in 2017.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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