Margate, NJ, USA
2nd Night Sighthting of iDiamond Shaped Obt the size of a Football Field...brightly lit corners. Traveled from Sea Isle to Margate.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-07-19
- Where
- Margate, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 10
- Geo
- 39.328, -74.503 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-margate-nj-2009-b6d2f9
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
- Margate, NJ shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 119 reports came from New Jersey in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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