UFOMYST
CaseLight2008

Long Branch, NJ, USA

Two bright lights off Long Branch, NJ over the Atlantic Ocean

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-05
Where
Long Branch, NJ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 Minutes
Geo
40.304, -73.992 · exact
Slug
light-over-long-branch-nj-2008-bc2cc1
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

  • Long Branch, NJ shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 104 reports came from New Jersey in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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