UFOMYST
CaseCircle1997

Chester, NJ, USA

Seven UFO's zigzagging in formation across the night sky

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1997-11-15
Where
Chester, NJ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
40.784, -74.697 · exact
Slug
circle-over-chester-nj-1997-b4640c
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 5 reports logged in Chester, NJ.
  • This case is one of 24 New Jersey reports filed in 1997.
  • Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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