CaseFormation1949
Marion, AL, USA
A witness in Marion, Alabama reported orb-shaped objects during a debriefing account from 1949, observed for under one minute.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (126 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1949-07-01
- Where
- Marion, AL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- Under 1 minute
- Geo
- 32.632, -87.319 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-marion-al-1949-ad9d1e
In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Marion, AL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Alabama logged 2 sightings in 1949.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.9% during the 1940s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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