Teterboro Airport, NJ, USA
A report from near Teterboro Airport, NJ in June 1973 described a cigar-shaped object observed near the airport, lasting 5 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1973-06-21
- Where
- Teterboro Airport, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- cigar-over-teterboro-airport-nj-1973-bbd05a
Part of a wave
The Great 1973 Flap
United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest
With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Teterboro Airport, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 6 sightings in 1973.
- Cigar sightings ran at 5.2% during the 1970s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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