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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