Atco, NJ, USA
Two oval lighted objects seen in the nite sky were rotating and moving quickly in straight lines then disappeared clear dark nite
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1080s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-12-18
- Where
- Atco, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 18 minutes
- Geo
- 39.770, -74.887 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-atco-nj-2018-a6102e
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
- Atco, NJ shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 58 reports came from New Jersey in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.