CaseFlash2012

Mannington/Salem, NJ, USA

Formation of bizzare blinking lights near Salem Nuclear Plant

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-31
Where
Mannington/Salem, NJ, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
39.572, -75.467 · exact
Slug
flash-over-mannington-salem-nj-2012-75eadd
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

  • Mannington/Salem, NJ shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 159 reports came from New Jersey in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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