Cardiff, CA, USA
There were 2 glowing objects in the sky multiplying to 7 and slowly disappearing one by one.
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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: 570s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-03-31
- Where
- Cardiff, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 9.5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.646, -86.934 · fallback
- Slug
- formation-over-cardiff-ca-2020-fdd0cc
Part of a wave
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
- Cardiff, CA has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 622 reports from California.
- The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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