Newark (near; on NJ Turnpike), NJ, USA
Driving towards E on NJ turnpike at the vicinity of Newark Liberty Int airport towards the eastern sky saw 2 lights move from north.
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 (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-08-24
- Where
- Newark (near; on NJ Turnpike), NJ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Geo
- 40.736, -74.172 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-newark-near-on-nj-turnpike-nj-2014-bdf97a
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
- Newark (near; on NJ Turnpike), NJ has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 167 reports from New Jersey.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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