Spotswood, NJ, USA
In Spotswood, New Jersey on September 5, 1965, witnesses reported a silent cylinder-shaped object hovering over a schoolyard for about ten 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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (147 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-09-05
- Where
- Spotswood, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 40.392, -74.398 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-spotswood-nj-1965-cb7bb7
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Spotswood, NJ has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 6 reports from New Jersey.
- The 1960s skewed 2% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.