CaseFormation2004

Fairfax, CA, USA

black object

Report quality: Moderate66/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (12 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2004-10-18
Where
Fairfax, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10minutes
Geo
37.987, -122.589 · exact
Slug
formation-over-fairfax-ca-2004-59369c
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Fairfax, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of October 2004.

In context

  • One of 9 documented reports from Fairfax, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 568 sightings in 2004.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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