UFOMYST
Caselight1997

Newark (south of, Garden State Pkwy.), NJ, USA

A bright light with a tail, like a fireworks, flew east to west across the highway, between 100 and 500 feet elevation??, distance ??

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-12
Where
Newark (south of, Garden State Pkwy.), NJ, USA
Shape
light
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
40.736, -74.172 · exact
Slug
light-over-newark-south-of-garden-state-pkwy-nj-1997-970855
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Newark (south of, Garden State Pkwy.), NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 24 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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