Ocean, NJ, USA
Flashing, star like image in red and green; looked at through binoculars as image seemed to be moving. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2011-01-13
- Where
- Ocean, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 39.278, -74.575 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-ocean-nj-2011-8bf839
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
- Ocean, NJ shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 92 reports came from New Jersey in 2011.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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