Arizona (NE part)/New Mexico??, AZ, USA
Flying @ 30,000 onboard comm. jet from LAX to San Antonio, TX. 1 or several craft were maneuvering above an electrical storm.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-08-13
- Where
- Arizona (NE part)/New Mexico??, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- @5 min
- Geo
- 32.756, -111.671 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-arizona-ne-part-new-mexico-az-1978-d278dd
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Arizona (NE part)/New Mexico??, AZ.
- This case is one of 10 Arizona reports filed in 1978.
- Formation craft made up 1.3% of 1970s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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