Jackson, NJ, USA
Objects moved very fast made right angle turns and varied in light intensity. Disappearing and reappearing for approx. 20 minutes.
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-07-25
- Where
- Jackson, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 39.776, -74.862 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-jackson-nj-1989-a85c8d
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
- Jackson, NJ shows up 29 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from New Jersey in 1989.
- In the 1980s, 11% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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