UFOMYST
CaseSphere1997

Howell, NJ, USA

It was hovering and left with great speed and there was no sound or exhaust smoke

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (81 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-23
Where
Howell, NJ, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15
Geo
40.164, -74.208 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-howell-nj-1997-bfee81
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 27 documented reports from Howell, NJ in the UFOMYST archive.
  • New Jersey logged 24 sightings in 1997.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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