CaseRectangle2002
Newark, NJ, USA
Strange sound from sky near internation airport
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-05-12
- Where
- Newark, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 4 to 6 seconds
- Geo
- 40.736, -74.172 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-newark-nj-2002-470434
In context
- Newark, NJ shows up 35 times across the archive.
- 59 reports came from New Jersey in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
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.