CaseFormation1998
Angola, NY, USA
I saw 4 distinct shapes in the sky flying very slowly . They flew in formation eastward , then wheeled back west . After a few min. of
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 450s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-12
- Where
- Angola, NY, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5-10 min
- Geo
- 42.638, -79.028 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-angola-ny-1998-cafcfe
In context
- Angola, NY has 6 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 71 reports from New York.
- The 1990s skewed 2.7% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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