CaseCigar1960
Watchung, NJ, USA
In 1960, a witness in Watchung, New Jersey, reported a reddish-brown, cigar-shaped object humming overhead with markings resembling hieroglyphic writing, for about 20 seconds.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (175 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-08-10
- Where
- Watchung, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 40.638, -74.451 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-watchung-nj-1960-f50a37
In context
- One of 5 documented reports from Watchung, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 3 sightings in 1960.
- Cigar sightings ran at 7% during the 1960s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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