CaseFormation2020

Bend, OR, USA

fast moving, 5 point triangular formation of lights that break away in unison

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (77 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-19
Where
Bend, OR, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
4.5 seconds
Geo
44.058, -121.315 · exact
Slug
formation-over-bend-or-2020-3c62d8
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

  • One of 79 documented reports from Bend, OR in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Oregon logged 237 sightings in 2020.
  • Formation sightings ran at 5.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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