Point Pleasant, NJ, USA
July 4th, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ Infrared light seen floating at a low altitude over Atlantic Ocean while waiting for fireworks.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-06-04
- Where
- Point Pleasant, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 40.083, -74.068 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-point-pleasant-nj-2012-fd2281
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
- Point Pleasant, NJ shows up 6 times across the archive.
- 159 reports came from New Jersey in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.