# Westwood, New Jersey · Place

> Borough about 11 km north of the sighting; Casella said the object's course ran to a point west of it. In Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947.

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

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# Westwood, New Jersey

Borough about 11 km north of the sighting; Casella said the object's course ran to a point west of it.

[Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88)[1 source][40.9910° N, 74.0330° W]

Westwood, New Jersey is a town in the record of Incident 88: the Hackensack disc, 3 August 1947, placed to about 1 km.

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Placed from Borough centre on a modern map · Placed to about 1 km[Open the mystery's map](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88#map)

## In the mysteries

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

Borough about 11 km north of the sighting; Casella said the object's course ran to a point west of it.

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

## Nearby within 500 km

[Simons Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/incident-88/places/PLC0DFY5K82J33X/simons-avenue-hackensack-new-jersey)

street

11 km S

[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

16 km S

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

museum

24 km S

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

museum

24 km S

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

museum

24 km S

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

31 km S

## 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). Westwood, New Jersey [Place PLC0DFY5KX589TF]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/PLC0DFY5KX589TF
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Key

**PLC** 0DFY5KX589TF

Record

Place

Kind

Town

Position

40.9910° N, 74.0330° W

Precision

About 1 km

Placed from

Borough centre on a modern map

In

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

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