UFOMYST
CaseFireball1997

New Jersey, NJ, USA

about 2 and a half years ago I saw a ball shaped object fly across the sky at a fast speed.

Report quality: Moderate43/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-07-15
Where
New Jersey, NJ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
47.199, -65.206 · fallback
Slug
fireball-over-new-jersey-nj-1997-928f89
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • New Jersey, NJ shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 24 reports came from New Jersey in 1997.
  • In the 1990s, 6.8% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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