Manalapan, NJ, USA
extremely bright lights hovering over the tree line before dipping below the tree line
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-21
- Where
- Manalapan, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5min.
- Geo
- 40.257, -74.396 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-manalapan-nj-2005-a7a8a0
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
- This is one of 11 reports logged in Manalapan, NJ.
- This case is one of 87 New Jersey reports filed in 2005.
Report
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