Crescent City, CA, USA
Eight lights in V pattern traveling from east to west in seconds dissapearing over the ocean
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (92 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-03-21
- Where
- Crescent City, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 41.756, -124.202 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-crescent-city-ca-2020-098591
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
- Crescent City, CA has 24 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 622 reports from California.
- The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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