CaseFormation1979

Cold Lake (Canada), AB, Canada

Name: UFO sighting — Cold Lake (Canada), AB, Canada
Start: 1979-05-20
Location: Cold Lake (Canada), AB, Canada

v formation of lights in outer space turning 90 degrees

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
Brief witness text (55 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1979-05-20
Where: Cold Lake (Canada), AB, Canada
Shape: Formation
Duration: 45 seconds
Geo: 54.465, -110.182 · exact
Slug: formation-over-cold-lake-canada-ab-1979-b792b7

In context

Cold Lake (Canada), Canada shows up 10 times across the archive.
12 reports came from Canada in 1979.
In the 1970s, 1.3% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

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