Jackson, NJ, USA
Amazingly bright white slow moving flashes. Some brighter than others. It circled the sky for about 10 min before it took off extremely
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 480s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-10-05
- Where
- Jackson, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 8 minutes
- Geo
- 39.776, -74.862 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-jackson-nj-2015-9eb910
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 29 reports logged in Jackson, NJ.
- This case is one of 130 New Jersey reports filed in 2015.
Report
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