Pitman, NJ, USA
Sat night, 9/17/11 Pitman and Washington twp NJ, light comes down to earth and then shoots back up on an angle.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-18
- Where
- Pitman, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- seconds
- Geo
- 39.733, -75.132 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-pitman-nj-2011-3734d0
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
- Pitman, NJ has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 92 reports from New Jersey.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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