CaseFormation1978
Pine Grove, CA, USA
3 unknown objects overflew our house just after dark. They were in formation.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-07-20
- Where
- Pine Grove, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 38.413, -120.659 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-pine-grove-ca-1978-0654ed
Wave
Part of a wave
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In context
- Pine Grove, CA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 60 reports came from California in 1978.
- In the 1970s, 1.3% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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