CaseRectangle1979
Barnegat, NJ, USA
Iwitnessed one object moving east to west across Rt.539 4 mile north of Rt.72 near the Fire Tower. There were no cloud and the sky was
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-10-12
- Where
- Barnegat, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 15 min.
- Geo
- 39.753, -74.223 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-barnegat-nj-1979-8c5462
In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Barnegat, NJ.
- This case is one of 12 New Jersey reports filed in 1979.
- Rectangle craft made up 2.3% of 1970s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
Report
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