Hackensack, New Jersey Flying Disc Sighting
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Multiple witnesses in Hackensack, New Jersey reported observing a round, black object moving rapidly through the sky on August 3, 1947. The object was described as moving too fast to be a balloon and was estimated at 30-40 inches in diameter, traveling approximately 200 yards above 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; vicinity of Summit Avenue and Simons Avenue
- Country
- United States
- Region
- New Jersey
- Branch
- FBI
- Unit
- Newark Division, FBI
- Sensors
- eyewitness
- Shape
- Round or disc-shaped, black
- Size
- Approximately 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
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