CaseFormation1979
Rockford, IL, USA
Several round objects in a straight line formation
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1979-09-01
- Where
- Rockford, IL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 42.271, -89.094 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-rockford-il-1979-b01840
In context
- This is one of 133 reports logged in Rockford, IL.
- This case is one of 14 Illinois reports filed in 1979.
- Formation craft made up 1.3% of 1970s 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.