CaseCigar1960
Carteret, NJ, USA
In 1960, a witness in Carteret, New Jersey, reported a silent cigar-shaped object moving slowly overhead before vanishing at tremendous speed, over about ten minutes.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (166 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-08-01
- Where
- Carteret, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.577, -74.228 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-carteret-nj-1960-166dac
In context
- One of 19 documented reports from Carteret, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 3 sightings in 1960.
- Cigar sightings ran at 7% during the 1960s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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