Elizabeth, NJ, USA
In Elizabeth, New Jersey on March 16, 1966, a witness reported a silvery chevron-shaped object moving across the sky before fading from view, in about one minute.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (162 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-03-16
- Where
- Elizabeth, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 40.664, -74.211 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-elizabeth-nj-1966-d47971
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Elizabeth, NJ has 19 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 5 reports from New Jersey.
- The 1960s skewed 0.9% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.
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.