CaseFormation1981
Long Beach, CA, USA
V-formaton of 3 large crafts
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-04-18
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 sec
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-long-beach-ca-1981-bf132c
In context
- Long Beach, CA has 142 sightings on file here.
- 1981 brought 35 reports from California.
- The 1980s skewed 2.5% 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.