CaseOval1968
Metuchen, NJ, USA
Daylight viewing of low oval metallic object gliding toward a second identical object, pausing then simultaneously shooting skyward
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-07-30
- Where
- Metuchen, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 40.543, -74.363 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-metuchen-nj-1968-a181d4
In context
- Metuchen, NJ shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 15 reports came from New Jersey in 1968.
- In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.