CaseCigar1960
New Jersey (southern), NJ, USA
In 1960, a witness in southern New Jersey reported a cigar-shaped object that dropped pieces of heated metal, one of which the witness said they later kept, over four minutes.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (175 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1960-06-01
- Where
- New Jersey (southern), NJ, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 47.199, -65.206 · fallback
- Slug
- cigar-over-new-jersey-southern-nj-1960-5fe804
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from New Jersey (southern), NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 3 sightings in 1960.
- Cigar sightings ran at 7% during the 1960s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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