Montclair, NJ, USA
Driving on the road we noticed something that was hovering , bright three lights at each corner with lights in the middle and a red bli
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-12-22
- Where
- Montclair, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 12:12
- Geo
- 40.826, -74.209 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-montclair-nj-2018-3e1a37
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
- Montclair, NJ shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 58 reports came from New Jersey in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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