CaseDiamond2009

Hazlet, NJ, USA

bright diamond light in the north sky, turned towards the east and lights went out into a small red light and vanished.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-01-09
Where
Hazlet, NJ, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
1minute
Geo
40.416, -74.191 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-hazlet-nj-2009-bb9d9d
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

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Hazlet, NJ.
  • This case is one of 119 New Jersey reports filed in 2009.
  • Diamond craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.

Report

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