Edison, NJ, USA
Large, triangle shaped ufo that emanates light at each corner, moves on straight a straight linear axis while in 360 degree rotation.
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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-14
- Where
- Edison, NJ, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 50 seconds
- Geo
- 40.519, -74.412 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-edison-nj-1997-0615b5
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 35 reports logged in Edison, NJ.
- This case is one of 24 New Jersey reports filed in 1997.
- Triangle craft made up 11.6% of 1990s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.