New Providence, NJ, USA
NJ 5 am 1/17/08 UFO Long, Low Flying, 2 Rows of 8+ White Flashing Lights, on Bottom, 2 Red Flashing Lights at Top, Fast Speed went SE
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-01-17
- Where
- New Providence, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3-5 min
- Geo
- 40.698, -74.402 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-new-providence-nj-2008-5fbd7f
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 3 reports logged in New Providence, NJ.
- This case is one of 104 New Jersey reports filed in 2008.
Report
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