# An unidentified flying object that no ordinary cause explains

> Still possible: The object was not a balloon, bird or aircraft but something that remains unidentified, as the 1947 report claimed.

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Answer · Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947

# An unidentified flying object that no ordinary cause explains

The object was not a balloon, bird or aircraft but something that remains unidentified, as the 1947 report claimed.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Other people along the course from Teterboro to Westwood would have seen and reported an object moving against or across the wind.

## What would rule it out

- Upper-air winds show the object's course and speed match free drift.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[Two witnesses judged it too fast for a balloon and saw no string](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/evidence/EVD0DFY8YXCKFJN/two-witnesses-judged-it-too-fast-for-a-balloon-and-saw-no)

Speculative

FOR

[No one else reported it, and a neighbour on a porch saw nothing](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/evidence/EVD0DFY8YNEJVRG/no-one-else-reported-it-and-a-neighbour-on-a-porch-saw)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What did the three witnesses see over Hackensack on the evening of 3 August 1947?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/questions/QST0DFY739G80E5/what-did-the-three-witnesses-see-over-hackensack-on-the)

Open3 answers, none ahead

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Mysteries Department. (2026). An unidentified flying object that no ordinary cause explains [Answer ANS0DFY7H3A68ZE]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DFY7H3A68ZE
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