CaseFormation1998
Bend, OR, USA
5 objects in straight line following one another. 3 objects in front as bright as surrounding stars; 4th as bright as vega; 5th as brig
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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-11-06
- Where
- Bend, OR, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15-20 seconds
- Geo
- 44.058, -121.315 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-bend-or-1998-414486
In context
- Bend, OR shows up 79 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from Oregon in 1998.
- In the 1990s, 2.7% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.