CaseDisk1957
Paterson, NJ, USA
Formation of approximately 8 light gray metallic disks silently crossing the night sky around October 1957 in northern NJ
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 (121 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-10-01
- Where
- Paterson, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 40.917, -74.172 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-paterson-nj-1957-fa25ae
In context
- Paterson, NJ has 19 sightings on file here.
- 1957 brought 3 reports from New Jersey.
- The 1950s skewed 28.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
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.