Clifton, NJ, USA
It started with a blinking white light that divided up and looked like a bunch of drones flying from all directions. At one point count
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-10-24
- Where
- Clifton, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.858, -74.164 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-clifton-nj-1989-89b448
Part of a wave
The Belgian Triangle Wave
Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)
The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…
In context
- One of 28 documented reports from Clifton, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 7 sightings in 1989.
- Formation sightings ran at 2.5% during the 1980s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.