CaseFormation2001
Oakland, CA, USA
Dim, fast-moving, rapidly-changing formation startles Bay Area satellite observer.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-06
- Where
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 37.804, -122.271 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-oakland-ca-2001-9daa9e
In context
- Oakland, CA shows up 84 times across the archive.
- 379 reports came from California in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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