CaseFormation1968
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Five white lights hovering...Not weather balloons!
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-07-01
- Where
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.421, -119.698 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-santa-barbara-ca-1968-7c0185
In context
- This is one of 117 reports logged in Santa Barbara, CA.
- This case is one of 32 California reports filed in 1968.
- Formation craft made up 1.8% of 1960s 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.