CaseLight2021

Ocean city, NJ, USA

Lights in sky on July 4th. ((Starlink satellites???))

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 18000s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-07-04
Where
Ocean city, NJ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
.5 hour
Geo
39.278, -74.575 · exact
Slug
light-over-ocean-city-nj-2021-3e22b5
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

  • Ocean city, NJ has 19 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 75 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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