CaseFireball2014
Ocean City, NJ, USA
Red orange fireballs, Ocean City, NJ.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-08-09
- Where
- Ocean City, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 39.278, -74.575 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-ocean-city-nj-2014-db6128
Wave
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
- One of 19 documented reports from Ocean City, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 167 sightings in 2014.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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