CaseSphere2012

Surf City, NJ, USA

Orangish glowing sphere floating across the sky???

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (50 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-08
Where
Surf City, NJ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
39.662, -74.165 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-surf-city-nj-2012-12f579
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Surf City, NJ has 3 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 159 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Report

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