CaseLight1959
Jewett, NY, USA
In 1959, a witness in Jewett, New York, reported a light with a tumbling, zigzag flight pattern resembling a shooting star, observed in the Catskills for 20 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (165 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1959-08-13
- Where
- Jewett, NY, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.270, -74.303 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-jewett-ny-1959-cd467a
In context
- Jewett, NY has 2 sightings on file here.
- 1959 brought 6 reports from New York.
- The 1950s skewed 11.5% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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