UFOMYST
CaseFormation1977

Brea, CA, USA

Night-time flight of lights changes formation suddenly.

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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-03-15
Where
Brea, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
7 seconds
Geo
33.917, -117.900 · exact
Slug
formation-over-brea-ca-1977-290b8f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • Brea, CA has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 44 reports from California.
  • The 1970s skewed 1.3% 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.