CaseFormation2001
Whittier, CA, USA
V-shaped formation of pale amber lights
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (39 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-09-26
- Where
- Whittier, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- Few seconds
- Geo
- 33.979, -118.033 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-whittier-ca-2001-dd16a3
In context
- Whittier, CA has 62 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 379 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.