CaseFormation2000
Modesto, CA, USA
These aircraft were not running any FAA required flight gear!
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-10-21
- Where
- Modesto, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 37.639, -120.997 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-modesto-ca-2000-2870af
In context
- Modesto, CA has 114 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 439 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% 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.