CaseFormation1971
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Four hazy, circular white lights were reported flying in formation over Hope Ranch in Santa Barbara, California, at 1:00 a.m. in June 1971, visible for about two seconds.
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (170 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-06-30
- Where
- Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- ~2 seconds
- Geo
- 34.421, -119.698 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-santa-barbara-ca-1971-a5cb0d
In context
- This is one of 117 reports logged in Santa Barbara, CA.
- This case is one of 23 California reports filed in 1971.
- Formation craft made up 1.3% of 1970s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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