CaseCigar1980
Jersey City, NJ, USA
Blimp shaped object with extremely bright lights hovered then rapidly dashed into the night's sky.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-10-01
- Where
- Jersey City, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 2-3 Minutes
- Geo
- 40.728, -74.078 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-jersey-city-nj-1980-f7e81d
In context
- This is one of 30 reports logged in Jersey City, NJ.
- This case is one of 10 New Jersey reports filed in 1980.
- Cigar craft made up 3.9% of 1980s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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.