CaseSphere1961
McGuire AFB, NJ, USA
In 1961, a witness near McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, reported two sightings: a green spherical light and, separately, one or more red fireballs, over about three hours.
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (175 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1961-03-12
- Where
- McGuire AFB, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 40.040, -74.582 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-mcguire-afb-nj-1961-f96f7a
In context
- McGuire AFB, NJ has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1961 brought 1 reports from New Jersey.
- The 1960s skewed 7.8% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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