UFOMYST
CaseOval1966

Wanaque, NJ, USA

Witnesses in Wanaque, New Jersey, reported an oval-shaped object gliding at treetop level during a brief ten-second sighting in November 1966, days before a similar report in the same town.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (189 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-11-21
Where
Wanaque, NJ, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.038, -74.294 · exact
Slug
oval-over-wanaque-nj-1966-52e6b5
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • One of 10 documented reports from Wanaque, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 5 sightings in 1966.
  • Oval sightings ran at 6.6% during the 1960s (archive average: 4.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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