CaseDiamond2012

Orange, NJ, USA

It was bright bright orange..Thinking mabe a star blown up in space. Then blue lights started blank

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-12-04
Where
Orange, NJ, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
Geo
40.771, -74.233 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-orange-nj-2012-cdbe27
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

  • Orange, NJ shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 159 reports came from New Jersey in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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