CaseFireball1986
Colts Neck, NJ, USA
ET Sighting in Colts Neck NJ 1986, shooting objects across the sky.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-09-18
- Where
- Colts Neck, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 40.288, -74.172 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-colts-neck-nj-1986-08f8db
In context
- Colts Neck, NJ has 8 sightings on file here.
- 1986 brought 2 reports from New Jersey.
- The 1980s skewed 2.8% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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