CaseFormation2001
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Formation of lights that looked like a flock of birds flying in formation in the shape of a large bird or eagle
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-03
- Where
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- one minute
- Geo
- 34.019, -118.491 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-santa-monica-ca-2001-e96b9c
In context
- One of 61 documented reports from Santa Monica, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 379 sightings in 2001.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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