UFOMYST
CaseCircle1978

Helmetta, NJ, USA

It hovered , sprinted across the sky. Hovered again. Disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-12-20
Where
Helmetta, NJ, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
seconds
Geo
40.377, -74.425 · exact
Slug
circle-over-helmetta-nj-1978-a35283
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Helmetta, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 9 sightings in 1978.
  • Circle sightings ran at 10.5% during the 1970s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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