CaseFormation1999
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Seen traveling north in western sky about 2 degrees below (Mars?)looked like birds in formation at first, but very fast and no flapping
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-06-06
- Where
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 7-8 seconds
- Geo
- 34.019, -118.491 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-santa-monica-ca-1999-2c79e3
In context
- Santa Monica, CA has 61 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 407 reports from California.
- The 1990s skewed 2.7% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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