CaseCircle1997
Chester, NJ, USA
Seven UFO's zigzagging across the night sky over Chester, NJ
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (60 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-11-15
- Where
- Chester, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- several minutes
- Geo
- 40.784, -74.697 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-chester-nj-1997-7f4df2
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Chester, NJ has 5 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 24 reports from New Jersey.
- The 1990s skewed 6.7% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
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.