CaseCigar1957
Phillipsburg, NJ, USA
Witnesses in Phillipsburg, New Jersey reported a cigar-shaped object in the sky after nightfall, observed for about seven minutes in July 1957.
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (143 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-07-10
- Where
- Phillipsburg, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 40.694, -75.190 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-phillipsburg-nj-1957-bdf3e2
In context
- Phillipsburg, NJ has 13 sightings on file here.
- 1957 brought 3 reports from New Jersey.
- The 1950s skewed 7.3% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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