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
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 (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
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
- 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 daysReport
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