CaseLight2003

Manville, NJ, USA

on august 3rd, 2003 my father looked out the window and noticed a bright light that was close to earth that would get bright then dimme

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2003-08-03
Where
Manville, NJ, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
half hour
Geo
40.541, -74.588 · exact
Slug
light-over-manville-nj-2003-f84cbc

In context

  • Manville, NJ shows up 9 times across the archive.
  • 76 reports came from New Jersey in 2003.
  • In the 2000s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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