UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

Burlington, NJ, USA

Object appears, brightens then disappear in night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible Iridium satellite? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (54 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
2016-08-20
Where
Burlington, NJ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
40.071, -74.865 · exact
Slug
light-over-burlington-nj-2016-995d6e
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…

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In context

  • Burlington, NJ has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 129 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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