CaseTriangle1978

Ocean City, NJ, USA

Ocean City, NJ, triangle of 3 lights, hovered over condominium, no sound, departed with incredible speed

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1978-06-01
Where
Ocean City, NJ, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
39.278, -74.575 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-ocean-city-nj-1978-8673cb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Ocean City, NJ has 19 sightings on file here.
  • 1978 brought 9 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 1970s skewed 7.9% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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