CaseFormation1950
Los Padres National Forest, CA, USA
A witness near Los Padres National Forest, California reported objects moving in formation, observed for about 20 seconds in July 1950.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1950-07-15
- Where
- Los Padres National Forest, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- formation-over-los-padres-national-forest-ca-1950-e90c90
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In context
- Los Padres National Forest, CA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from California in 1950.
- In the 1950s, 1.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
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