CaseFireball1979
Beach Haven Terrace (Long Beach Island), NJ, USA
Fireball flying parellel with the horizen,then exacuting a 90 deg. turn over the horizen.The setting; approx. 10:10pm on Long Beach
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-08-15
- Where
- Beach Haven Terrace (Long Beach Island), NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.586, -74.223 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-beach-haven-terrace-long-beach-island-nj-1979-2f2323
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Beach Haven Terrace (Long Beach Island), NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 12 sightings in 1979.
- Fireball sightings ran at 2.6% during the 1970s (archive average: 6.9%).
Report
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