CaseCircle1963
Mantua, NJ, USA
it was 1963 during a baseball game. I had hit a single and was on first base. The first baseman (jimmy Steffens) and I were looking in
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1963-07-15
- Where
- Mantua, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 39.794, -75.172 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-mantua-nj-1963-2f08b4
In context
- Mantua, NJ shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 4 reports came from New Jersey in 1963.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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