CaseFireball1981
North Bergen, NJ, USA
It was early evening, while looking West, towards Hudson County Park, a ball of fire was seen moving east...
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-11-27
- Where
- North Bergen, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.804, -74.012 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-north-bergen-nj-1981-cc9d9c
In context
- North Bergen, NJ has 22 sightings on file here.
- 1981 brought 6 reports from New Jersey.
- The 1980s skewed 2.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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