Freehold, NJ, USA
If Orion had a foot, there is a "star"-like object making moves aerodynamically impossible. ((NUFORC Note: Sirius sighting. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (91 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
- 2006-12-17
- Where
- Freehold, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-3 Hours
- Geo
- 40.260, -74.274 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-freehold-nj-2006-9d3dd1
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
- Freehold, NJ has 21 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 73 reports from New Jersey.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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