Wanaque Reservoir, NJ, USA
Near Wanaque Reservoir, New Jersey in January 1966, a witness reported a sphere-shaped object in the sky, part of a series of sightings reported in the area; duration uncertain.
Report quality: Moderate43/100
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 (177 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-01-11
- Where
- Wanaque Reservoir, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- not sure
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- sphere-over-wanaque-reservoir-nj-1966-cf8dba
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Wanaque Reservoir, NJ has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1966 brought 5 reports from New Jersey.
- The 1960s skewed 7.8% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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