CaseLight1998
Cape May, NJ, USA
What initially appeared to be an aircraft, accelerated away from me at a rate of speed too great to be an aircraft. At a few miles dis
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-01-11
- Where
- Cape May, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes =/-
- Geo
- 38.935, -74.906 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-cape-may-nj-1998-0237f4
In context
- This is one of 17 reports logged in Cape May, NJ.
- This case is one of 27 New Jersey reports filed in 1998.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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