Hackensack, New Jersey Flying Disc Sighting
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Charles Caselia Jr. and William Truex observed a round, black object moving rapidly across the sky near Hackensack, New Jersey on August 3, 1947, described as approximately 30-40 inches in diameter traveling about 200 yards above the ground.
“CASELIA looked and about a block or a half block away noticed a round, black object moving from south to north and east of the stop where he and TRUEX were standing. CASELIA noticed that it was moving too fast to be an ordinary balloon, but he could not discern whether it was globular in form or a disc. He said it was about thirty to forty inches in diameter moving north in a horizontal plane about two hundred yards above the top of the hill at Summit Avenue and Simons Avenue.”
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Case details
- Date
- 1947-08-03
- Precision
- day
- Location
- Hackensack, New Jersey
- Country
- United States
- Region
- New Jersey
- Branch
- FBI
- Unit
- Newark Division
- Sensors
- eyewitness
- Shape
- round, black object; described by one witness as oval on top and pointed on bottom
- Size
- 30-40 inches in diameter
- Altitude
- 200 ft
- Duration
- 15s
Source document
Agency: FBI
File: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_2
Case ID: 1947-FBI-BA1ACB-CBC0
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