CaseFormation1969

Lamont, CA, USA

Witnesses near Lamont, California, described nine to thirteen objects in a V-shaped formation moving at extreme speed high in the atmosphere for four to five seconds in August 1969.

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (181 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1969-08-15
Where
Lamont, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
4 to 5 seconds
Geo
35.260, -118.914 · exact
Slug
formation-over-lamont-ca-1969-f114e4

In context

  • Lamont, CA shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 26 reports came from California in 1969.
  • In the 1960s, 1.8% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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