Passaic UFO photographs

[8] Ruppelt recalled: "During a six-month period in 1952... 148 of the nation's leading newspapers carried a total of over 16,000 items about flying saucers.

[11] Riley recalled that the object was heading southeast as a "leisurely pace" before coming to a halt and hovering overhead.

[11] Initial press accounts noted the novel presence of a "dome"-like shape atop the depicted disc, writing "The pictures may not exactly fit the descriptions of flying saucers you've heard about".

During that investigation, Air Force Special Agent George H. Wertz created a sketch of the object allegedly photographed by Stock.

The images were widely republished within the UFO community, including the works of Otto Binder, Kevin Randle, and Jerome Clark.

[13] In 2009, Weird NJ reported that "Passaic County is to UFO buffs what Coney Island is to hot dog lovers".