Tranquility, NJ, USA
plasma bright light traveling north at aslow rate of speed, very weird indeed.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-05-22
- Where
- Tranquility, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 3min
- Geo
- 40.956, -74.808 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-tranquility-nj-2008-187cf7
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
- Tranquility, NJ shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 104 reports came from New Jersey in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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