UFOMYST
CaseOval2008

Ocean City, NJ, USA

BLIMP SHAPED OBJECT IN THE SKY. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-17
Where
Ocean City, NJ, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 MINUTES
Geo
39.278, -74.575 · exact
Slug
oval-over-ocean-city-nj-2008-334170
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

  • Ocean City, NJ has 19 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 104 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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