CaseFormation2008

Kinnelon, NJ, USA

Five motionless hovering lights in a formation, just above treetops of a wooded area, slowly moved over a nearby field , then vanished.

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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-23
Where
Kinnelon, NJ, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
6 to 10 minutes
Geo
41.002, -74.367 · exact
Slug
formation-over-kinnelon-nj-2008-ca344d
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

  • One of 3 documented reports from Kinnelon, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 104 sightings in 2008.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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