UFOMYST
CaseChevron1965

Teaneck, NJ, USA

In Teaneck, New Jersey on August 1, 1965, a witness reported a fast-moving, dull orange chevron-shaped object crossing the sky in about 1.5 seconds.

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 (148 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-08-01
Where
Teaneck, NJ, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
1.5 seconds
Geo
40.898, -74.016 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-teaneck-nj-1965-a0d0c9
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    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'…

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In context

  • One of 7 documented reports from Teaneck, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 6 sightings in 1965.
  • Chevron sightings ran at 0.9% during the 1960s (archive average: 1.1%).

Report

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