CaseFormation2002
Aptos, CA, USA
7 unidentified aircraft speeding across the night sky and leaving no trace (vapor-trail, sonic boom)
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-05-18
- Where
- Aptos, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 36.977, -121.899 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-aptos-ca-2002-4a39ce
In context
- Aptos, CA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 430 reports came from California in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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