CaseOther1979
Paterson, NJ, USA
I realize this happened 27 years ago, but I could never forget it. I was driving on I -80 heading west, passing the city of Paterson; a
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-06-05
- Where
- Paterson, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 2 sec.
- Geo
- 40.917, -74.172 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-paterson-nj-1979-c49f34
In context
- Paterson, NJ has 19 sightings on file here.
- 1979 brought 12 reports from New Jersey.
- The 1970s skewed 6.5% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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