CaseFormation2020

Edison, NJ, USA

I noticed that the stars were real bright...at first it looked like the big dipper. (("Spacelink" satellites??))

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (83 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-03-26
Where
Edison, NJ, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10 minutes or more
Geo
40.519, -74.412 · exact
Slug
formation-over-edison-nj-2020-44870c
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

  • Edison, NJ has 35 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 144 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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