CaseChanging2008

Cape May, NJ, USA

Object appeared to be yellow colored run away balloon

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-08-28
Where
Cape May, NJ, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
20 min
Geo
38.935, -74.906 · exact
Slug
changing-over-cape-may-nj-2008-c3c2e4
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…

In context

  • Cape May, NJ has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 104 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2000s skewed 2.8% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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