CaseSphere1970
Toms River, NJ, USA
A spherical object was reported hovering over a neighbor's house in Toms River, New Jersey, in August 1970, with witnesses also describing a possible figure nearby during the ten-minute event.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (192 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-08-24
- Where
- Toms River, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- Ten Minutes
- Geo
- 39.954, -74.198 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-toms-river-nj-1970-05f2e9
In context
- Toms River, NJ shows up 42 times across the archive.
- 7 reports came from New Jersey in 1970.
- In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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