Deptford, NJ, USA
Magnificent ultra bright light/shape seen shining 10am in the sky north and to the east of downtown Philadelphia.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-07-02
- Where
- Deptford, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 54.914, -1.397 · fallback
- Slug
- unknown-over-deptford-nj-2018-d48b45
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
- One of 9 documented reports from Deptford, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 58 sightings in 2018.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.