Pennington, NJ, USA
The flashes were closer than a plane but were bright and kind of foggy like there were clouds in front of it, and two or three of them
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-01-27
- Where
- Pennington, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- few minutes
- Geo
- 40.328, -74.791 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-pennington-nj-2017-ebe534
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
- Pennington, NJ has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 120 reports from New Jersey.
- The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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