# Simons Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey · Place

> The residential street in north Hackensack where the Incident 88 witnesses stood on 3 August 1947, below the hill at Summit Avenue. In Incident 88: the…

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[Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88)[Places](https://mysteriesdept.com/places)Simons Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey

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# Simons Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey

The residential street in north Hackensack where the Incident 88 witnesses stood on 3 August 1947, below the hill at Summit Avenue.

[Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88)[2 events][1 source][40.8935° N, 74.0490° W]

Simons Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey is a street in the record of Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947, placed to about 100 m.

Two events on the site happened here, in 1947: Three people on Simons Avenue watch a round object cross the sky northward, and later FBI Newark reports interviews with the three witnesses and a neighbour.

The witnesses watched the object over the hill at Summit and Simons Avenues.

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Placed from Street location from the addresses in the FBI Newark letter of 13 August 1947, placed near the Summit Avenue junction on a modern map · Placed to about 100 m[Open the mystery's map](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88#map)

## In the mysteries

**Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947**

The residential street in north Hackensack where the Incident 88 witnesses stood on 3 August 1947, below the hill at Summit Avenue. · 2 events

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88)

## What happened here 2

3 Aug 1947[Three people on Simons Avenue watch a round object cross the sky northward](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/events/EVT0DFY6AXM45SA/three-people-on-simons-avenue-watch-a-round-object-cross-the)

13 Aug 1947[FBI Newark reports interviews with the three witnesses and a neighbour](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/events/EVT0DFY6BHKVW6Q/fbi-newark-reports-interviews-with-the-three-witnesses-and-a)

with [FBI Newark Division](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/organisations/ORG0DFY5YBF15X2/fbi-newark-division)

## Nearby within 500 km

[Teterboro airport and the Bendix area, New Jersey](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/places/PLC0DFY5KNZBZ8S/teterboro-airport-and-the-bendix-area-new-jersey)

airport

5 km S

[Westwood, New Jersey](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/places/PLC0DFY5KX589TF/westwood-new-jersey)

town

11 km N

[American Museum of Natural History, New York](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D9KTDWY3W57/american-museum-of-natural-history-new-york)

museum

14 km SE

[American Museum of Natural History, New York](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0D4V7VYR5FH0/american-museum-of-natural-history-new-york)

museum

14 km SE

[The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC0CQAGJDY53AH/the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-new-york)

museum

15 km SE

[New York](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/PLC08JJHDW001FW/new-york)

20 km S

## Organisations 1

[FBI Newark Division](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/organisations/ORG0DFY5YBF15X2/fbi-newark-division)

ORG

## Sources 1

[SAC Newark to Director, FBI: Flying disc reported at Hackensack, New Jersey, August 3, 1947 – Miscellaneous (FBI file 62-HQ-83894, Section 2)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFY3NXV9HJ2/sac-newark-to-director-fbi-flying-disc-reported-at)

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Simons Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey [Place PLC0DFY5K82J33X]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0DFY5K82J33X
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Key

**PLC** 0DFY5K82J33X

Record

Place

Kind

Street

Position

40.8935° N, 74.0490° W

Precision

About 100 m

Placed from

Street location from the addresses in the FBI Newark letter of 13 August 1947, placed near the Summit Avenue junction on a modern map

In

[Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88)

Version

1

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