CaseCircle1953
Keansburg, NJ, USA
A witness in Keansburg, New Jersey reported a silvery, circular object moving slowly overhead at 3 a.m., changing direction before vanishing over the horizon, over nine minutes, November 1953.
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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (192 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1953-11-15
- Where
- Keansburg, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 9 minutes
- Geo
- 40.442, -74.130 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-keansburg-nj-1953-630f1f
In context
- This is one of 7 reports logged in Keansburg, NJ.
- This case is one of 1 New Jersey reports filed in 1953.
- Circle craft made up 10% of 1950s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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