CaseDisk1979
West New York, NJ, USA
August 1979, sighting in broad daylight over the Hudson river, near New Jersy.
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-08-15
- Where
- West New York, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 2-7 minutes
- Geo
- 40.788, -74.014 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-west-new-york-nj-1979-46a91b
In context
- One of 6 documented reports from West New York, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 12 sightings in 1979.
- Disk sightings ran at 22.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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