UFOMYST
CaseOval2018

Cape May, NJ, USA

Small lightening bolt that changed form to a perfect zero with purple flares.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-11-11
Where
Cape May, NJ, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
Hours
Geo
38.935, -74.906 · exact
Slug
oval-over-cape-may-nj-2018-5c9303
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Cape May, NJ shows up 17 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

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