CaseFormation1998
San Jose, CA, USA
2 sets of 5 objects moving in parallel formation
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-26
- Where
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5min
- Geo
- 37.339, -121.895 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-jose-ca-1998-e710e5
In context
- This is one of 277 reports logged in San Jose, CA.
- This case is one of 232 California reports filed in 1998.
- Formation craft made up 2.7% of 1990s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
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.