CaseFireball1975

Salem, NJ, USA

Two times, I saw four red balls of fire that were just above rooftops.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1975-06-30
Where
Salem, NJ, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
39.572, -75.467 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-salem-nj-1975-356b89

In context

  • Salem, NJ has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 1975 brought 10 reports from New Jersey.
  • The 1970s skewed 2.6% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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