CaseFormation1998
Manasota Key, FL, USA
Mother ship with smaller ships encircling moving slowly white lights.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (69 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-05
- Where
- Manasota Key, FL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- ~1 hour
- Geo
- 26.925, -82.352 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-manasota-key-fl-1998-058a53
In context
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Manasota Key, FL.
- This case is one of 107 Florida reports filed in 1998.
- Formation craft made up 2.7% of 1990s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
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.