UFOMYST
CaseFlash2008

Frenchtown, NJ, USA

We all saw a flash of light in the sky for 2-3 seconds just standing their. Then the beam shot into the sky leaving a blue trail.

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-03
Where
Frenchtown, NJ, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
40.526, -75.062 · exact
Slug
flash-over-frenchtown-nj-2008-f35e8b
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Frenchtown, NJ shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 104 reports came from New Jersey in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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