Columbus, NJ, USA
2 Oval Craft split into 4 Craft Nearby Ft. Dix / McGuire AFB Broad daylight!
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-12-23
- Where
- Columbus, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 20-30 seconds
- Geo
- 40.073, -74.721 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-columbus-nj-2009-b9545a
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Columbus, NJ.
- This case is one of 119 New Jersey reports filed in 2009.
- Oval craft made up 4.7% of 2000s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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