Maple Shade, NJ, USA
Moving white light southeast to northeast then disappears. Approx 6-8seconds. About the size of bigger medium size star, but bright lik
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-29
- Where
- Maple Shade, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 8 seconds
- Geo
- 39.953, -74.992 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-maple-shade-nj-2020-cfbc74
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
- Maple Shade, NJ has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 144 reports from New Jersey.
- The 2020s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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