UFOMYST
CaseOval2018

Wildwood Crest, NJ, USA

Bright UFO in the South sky. ((NUFORC Note: Minimum of information from witness. Possible sighting of Mars? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2018-08-09
Where
Wildwood Crest, NJ, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
38.975, -74.834 · exact
Slug
oval-over-wildwood-crest-nj-2018-34a85a
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

  • One of 13 documented reports from Wildwood Crest, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 58 sightings in 2018.
  • Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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