Union Beach, NJ, USA
2 or 3 low lit red lights, traveling fast above us, 3 to 5 sec, altitude unknown
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-09
- Where
- Union Beach, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 3 to 5 sec
- Geo
- 40.447, -74.178 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-union-beach-nj-2009-4c5c15
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
- Union Beach, NJ shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 119 reports came from New Jersey in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.2% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Report
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