Wanaque, NJ, USA
Witnesses in Wanaque, New Jersey, reported an oval-shaped object floating at treetop level during a 30-second sighting in November 1966.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (136 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-11-25
- Where
- Wanaque, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 30 Seconds
- Geo
- 41.038, -74.294 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-wanaque-nj-1966-a32c55
Part of a wave
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'…
In context
- Wanaque, NJ shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from New Jersey in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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