East Hanover, NJ, USA
Witnesses in East Hanover, New Jersey, reported colored, blinking lights approximately 150 feet up in the southern sky on a moonless night, during a roughly ten-minute sighting in July 1967.
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 (190 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1967-07-01
- Where
- East Hanover, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- aprox.10min
- Geo
- 40.820, -74.365 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-east-hanover-nj-1967-799790
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
- This is one of 5 reports logged in East Hanover, NJ.
- This case is one of 5 New Jersey reports filed in 1967.
- Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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