Hopewell, NJ, USA
December 31, 1978 at 12:30AM - Object hoovered over my parked car for about 10 minutes and was about 100-150 ft above my car. Estimate
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-12-31
- Where
- Hopewell, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 30 mins
- Geo
- 40.389, -74.762 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-hopewell-nj-1978-c76d80
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In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Hopewell, NJ.
- This case is one of 9 New Jersey reports filed in 1978.
- Disk craft made up 22.6% of 1970s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
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