UFOMYST
CaseFormation2008

Downey, CA, USA

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Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-01-02
Where
Downey, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 minute
Geo
33.940, -118.133 · exact
Slug
formation-over-downey-ca-2008-2de762
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Downey, CA has 28 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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