CaseOval1971
Sparta, NJ, USA
A multicolored, stadium-sized oval object was reported over Sparta, New Jersey, in June 1971, vanishing at extremely high speed within five to seven seconds.
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (157 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-06-15
- Where
- Sparta, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5-7 seconds
- Geo
- 41.033, -74.638 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-sparta-nj-1971-e2cdf3
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Sparta, NJ.
- This case is one of 2 New Jersey reports filed in 1971.
- Oval craft made up 6.9% of 1970s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
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.