CaseFormation2004

Adriatic Sea (near Hvar) (Croatia), Croatia

Triangle of lights moving in a straight line across the Agean Sea almost west-to-east.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-08-20
Where
Adriatic Sea (near Hvar) (Croatia), Croatia
Shape
Formation
Duration
5-7 minutes
Geo
Slug
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Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Adriatic Sea (near Hvar) (Croatia), Croatia has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 2 reports from Croatia.
  • The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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