UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2007

Clinton, NJ, USA

The craft passed by my house about 200 ft high, 30 mph, silent, with 5 dim white lights. ((NUFORC Note: Possible hoax?? PD))

Report quality: Low5/100

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2007-10-17
Where
Clinton, NJ, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
7 sec
Geo
40.637, -74.910 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-clinton-nj-2007-ba14ba
Wave

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In context

  • One of 8 documented reports from Clinton, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 69 sightings in 2007.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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