Bloomsbury, NJ, USA
A blue/green neon like light object shined through the clouds. Traveling from the east to west at a high rate of speed.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (119 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-07-29
- Where
- Bloomsbury, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 1-5 minutes
- Geo
- 40.654, -75.087 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-bloomsbury-nj-1997-dd4ec4
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- One of 2 documented reports from Bloomsbury, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
- New Jersey logged 24 sightings in 1997.
- Rectangle sightings ran at 1.4% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.7%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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