CaseCigar1974
Passaic, NJ, USA
A report from Passaic, NJ in May 1974 described what initially appeared to be a sky full of stationary stars that then began to move together, lasting 30 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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (162 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1974-05-15
- Where
- Passaic, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 40.857, -74.128 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-passaic-nj-1974-b2a3c5
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Passaic, NJ.
- This case is one of 9 New Jersey reports filed in 1974.
- Cigar craft made up 5.2% of 1970s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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