CaseDisk1996
Passaic, NJ, USA
Interaction with an unknown silent object which tumbled in a straight line away and up at a shallow angle to where a silver dot was.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-05-20
- Where
- Passaic, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.857, -74.128 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-passaic-nj-1996-b6d544
In context
- One of 6 documented reports from Passaic, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 22 sightings in 1996.
- Disk sightings ran at 7.1% during the 1990s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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