CaseLight2016

Bradley Beach, NJ, USA

They just fly over head and disappear to the north parallel to the ocean. They look to be very high up. ((NUFORC Note: Aircraft. PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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 (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-08-08
Where
Bradley Beach, NJ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
on going
Geo
40.202, -74.012 · exact
Slug
light-over-bradley-beach-nj-2016-8a0542
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

  • Bradley Beach, NJ shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 129 reports came from New Jersey in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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