Mantua, NJ, USA
Near Mantua, New Jersey on December 9, 1965, a witness reported a cigar-shaped object resembling a wingless fuselage, with flames appearing to rise from it rather than trail behind, over two 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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (199 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-12-09
- Where
- Mantua, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2minutes
- Geo
- 39.794, -75.172 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-mantua-nj-1965-86844a
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 4 reports logged in Mantua, NJ.
- This case is one of 6 New Jersey reports filed in 1965.
- Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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.