Northfield, NJ, USA
I saw what at first looked to me like a small fire flying absolutely silently through the sky. It did not blink; was silent.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-05-13
- Where
- Northfield, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2.5 minutes
- Geo
- 39.370, -74.550 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-northfield-nj-2013-0fff8d
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
- Northfield, NJ has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 166 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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