Franklin, NJ, USA
bright then dim flashing red white green lights - not moving and low in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of star?? PD))
Report quality: Low31/100
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: 259200s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (80 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
- 2009-04-13
- Where
- Franklin, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 days+
- Geo
- 41.122, -74.580 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-franklin-nj-2009-1218f1
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
- Franklin, NJ has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 119 reports from New Jersey.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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