UFOMYST
CaseDisk1997

Chatham, NJ, USA

5/22/97 22:21 large object over morris/union county new jersey. ten degrees above horizon.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (90 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-05-22
Where
Chatham, NJ, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
5-10 min.
Geo
40.741, -74.384 · exact
Slug
disk-over-chatham-nj-1997-1bdad6
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Chatham, NJ.
  • This case is one of 24 New Jersey reports filed in 1997.
  • Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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