CaseRectangle1979
Emerson, NJ, USA
In the fall or winter of 1979, my parents had a UFO encounter in Bergen County, New Jersey. These are blue-collar, relatively unima
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-11-10
- Where
- Emerson, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 2 minutes
- Geo
- 40.976, -74.026 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-emerson-nj-1979-545a2a
In context
- Emerson, NJ shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from New Jersey in 1979.
- In the 1970s, 2.3% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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