UFOMYST
CaseDisk1978

Paterson, NJ, USA

UFO on the night of the Paterson Falls View Festival

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-01
Where
Paterson, NJ, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
40.917, -74.172 · exact
Slug
disk-over-paterson-nj-1978-2329b3
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 19 documented reports from Paterson, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 9 sightings in 1978.
  • Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).

Report

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