CaseFormation2009

Whippany, NJ, USA

Red lights in triangular formations seen for several minutes in Whippany (Morris County), NJ

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-05
Where
Whippany, NJ, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
40.825, -74.417 · exact
Slug
formation-over-whippany-nj-2009-e0c015
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

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Whippany, NJ.
  • This case is one of 119 New Jersey reports filed in 2009.
  • Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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