Bright object observed over Cedar Grove in suburban northern New Jersey (1964)

Project Blue Book Case #9104. On September 10, 1964, witnesses in Cedar Grove, New Jersey — a suburban township in Essex County approximately 20 miles west of Manhattan — observed a bright object. Cedar Grove sat beneath the congested New York metropolitan airspace where residents were expert at recognizing routine air traffic. September 1964 followed the Socorro encounter by five months. The case was classified "Unknown."