UFOMYST
CaseDisk1973

Phillipsburg, NJ, USA

unreported object hovered over river for approx. 15 min. and no one talks about it, no reports in the newspapers

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (112 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1973-08-15
Where
Phillipsburg, NJ, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
approx. 15 min.
Geo
40.694, -75.190 · exact
Slug
disk-over-phillipsburg-nj-1973-709cdc
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1973

    The Great 1973 Flap

    United States, strongest in the Southeast and Midwest

    With Blue Book dead, the biggest post-war flap had no official landing place — reports went to police, press, and the new civilian networks (MUFON, founded 1969, came of age here). October 1973 delivered Pascagoula's…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Phillipsburg, NJ has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 1973 brought 6 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% 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.