CaseCigar1968
Elwood, NJ, USA
A witness in Elwood, New Jersey reported a slow-moving cigar or disk-shaped object near the tree line in 1968; the sighting was reported in a local newspaper the next day and lasted fifteen seconds.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (198 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-08-20
- Where
- Elwood, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 39.577, -74.717 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-elwood-nj-1968-25e697
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Elwood, NJ.
- This case is one of 15 New Jersey reports filed in 1968.
- Cigar craft made up 7% of 1960s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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