Branchburg, NJ, USA
4 line/oval shaped lights moving slowly towards the west just after sunset.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-12-07
- Where
- Branchburg, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- other-over-branchburg-nj-2018-e1d1b7
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
- Branchburg, NJ shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 58 reports came from New Jersey in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.