CaseRectangle1997

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
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

    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 days

Report

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