ADS-B military off NJ coast.

[wtp]

for about a week now, off the coast of New Jersey, south east of Toms River.
there has been something going about 1kt at negative 900 feet.
an object labeled B270E02, i am just curious as to what it is.
anybody else notice it ?

EDIT: i just googled the number and found it is a ship. ok.....

 

[Dog]

This is kinda cool. You might be able to find it here.

ShipXplorer - Global Vessel Tracking Intelligence | Live Vessel Tracker and Port Status

Real-time vessel tracking with one of the best and most accurate coverage worldwide.

www.shipxplorer.com

 

[RaleighGuy]

for about a week now, off the coast of New Jersey, south east of Toms River.
there has been something going about 1kt at negative 900 feet.
an object labeled B270E02, i am just curious as to what it is.
anybody else notice it ?

EDIT: i just googled the number and found it is a ship. ok.....

It's been there all month and has been discussed in other threads. A quick search of B270E02 in the search box above will return multiple posts.

Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2023

1400- Axeman flt (A-10Cs 104th FS MD ANG) working on PAX areas (305.2). A2A is 266.6 & 293.3. Also working PAX approach (281.8/314.0) 1420- Bat 32 (KC-135R # 59-1506 IA ANG) off WRI heading west. Going back to Iowa?

forums.radioreference.com

 

[wx2watch]

for about a week now, off the coast of New Jersey, south east of Toms River.
there has been something going about 1kt at negative 900 feet.
an object labeled B270E02, i am just curious as to what it is.
anybody else notice it ?

EDIT: i just googled the number and found it is a ship. ok.....

Interesting in that a quick glance at a nautical chart of the approximate area indicates water depths of less than 150 ft.
But then again, since it indicates barometric altitude, who knows?

 

[CapStar362]

its not a ship, its not a buoy
its a CPME Parrot Beacon used by the nearby William J Hughes Technical R&D Center for the FAA.
No ship or buoy would be on ADSB, rather AIS-B.

And why would a ship or a buoy be indicating -900 Feet in altitude? The ocean floor is not even 500 feet in that area. the reason its at -900 feet is to prevent erroneous TCAS Alerts to aircraft flying nearby and violations of 1000 feet of separation.

Its not even a physical device, its digitally inserted by the FAA.

On top of that, did anyone think to check its squawk code? 1273 -

https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/2019-05-02_7110.66F_NBCAP_final.pdf

NBCAP Allocation of Beacon Codes Plan, JO7110.66 Revision F.


Appendix A-1 - 1273-1275 Calibration Performance Monitoring Equipment (CPME), MRSM, and
PARROT transponders.


EDIT: Apologies on the necropost as well - but this particular thing, is a nuisance to the ADSB community in several places, despite the fact, it has been debunked to what it is, based on the information provided, people just keep asking and asking about it.