CaseFormation1996
Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia
A witness in Melbourne, Australia described a group of objects appearing to move together in formation across the sky, observed for about four hours in June 1996.
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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (162 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-06-02
- Where
- Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Geo
- -37.814, 144.963 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-melbourne-vic-australia-1996-f81fa7
In context
- One of 48 documented reports from Melbourne (VIC, Australia), Australia in the UFOMYST archive.
- Australia logged 16 sightings in 1996.
- Formation sightings ran at 2.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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