CaseFormation2003
Joshua Tree, CA, USA
A triangular formation of three lights heading south directly overhead. Appeared extremely high in the sky. Kept in perfect formation
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-08-03
- Where
- Joshua Tree, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 45 sec.
- Geo
- 34.135, -116.313 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-joshua-tree-ca-2003-135eee
In context
- Joshua Tree, CA has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 599 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure 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.