CaseFireball1989
Jackson, NJ, USA
I wonder now why we both didn't make a big deal about it
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-01-10
- Where
- Jackson, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 10...mins
- Geo
- 39.776, -74.862 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-jackson-nj-1989-f0a64c
Wave
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- This is one of 29 reports logged in Jackson, NJ.
- This case is one of 7 New Jersey reports filed in 1989.
- Fireball craft made up 2.8% of 1980s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
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.