CaseFormation2002
Ione, CA, USA
Very fast,silent, "v"formation, 5-6 points of light, north to south, fairly low, not blinking, reddish hue. Fast.
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: 12s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-05
- Where
- Ione, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 12 seconds
- Geo
- 38.353, -120.933 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-ione-ca-2002-4008d9
In context
- Ione, CA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 430 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% 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.