CaseFormation1998
Santa Monica, CA, USA
A 'V' shaped formation of lights passed overhead with no sound at high speed.
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (77 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-06-12
- Where
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5-7 seconds
- Geo
- 34.019, -118.491 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-santa-monica-ca-1998-b6ec88
In context
- Santa Monica, CA has 61 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 232 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 2.7% 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.