Blackwood, NJ, USA
A green flash of light zoomed through the sky above a park in Blackwood, NJ; it completely disappeared within seconds.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-03-05
- Where
- Blackwood, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 39.802, -75.064 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-blackwood-nj-2012-590e9c
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 12 documented reports from Blackwood, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 159 sightings in 2012.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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