South Orange, NJ, USA
I was standing in my back patio looking out at a few planes in the distance, as it is very dark with the current power outage. I notice
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-05
- Where
- South Orange, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 40.749, -74.261 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-south-orange-nj-2012-ced7ee
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
- South Orange, NJ shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 159 reports came from New Jersey in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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