CaseLight2018

Little Falls, NJ, USA

Red blinking light still happening right now north jersey sky near Paterson. Keeps moving left to right, right to left. Watching it for

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: 2400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-05-02
Where
Little Falls, NJ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
>40 minutes
Geo
40.869, -74.208 · exact
Slug
light-over-little-falls-nj-2018-e46699
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

  • Little Falls, NJ shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 58 reports came from New Jersey in 2018.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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