Weehawken, NJ, USA
Green orb without streaking, incoming over Hudson River between NYC & NJ. A high-speed descent that looked like it was destined to cras
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-10-23
- Where
- Weehawken, NJ, USA
- Shape
- other
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 40.770, -74.020 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-weehawken-nj-1997-6c7634
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Weehawken, NJ shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 24 reports came from New Jersey in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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