CaseFormation2022
Fresno, CA, USA
Black large silent object hovering over Fresno
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-04-11
- Where
- Fresno, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 36.748, -119.772 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-fresno-ca-2022-3b2f35
Wave
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
- Fresno, CA has 171 sightings on file here.
- 2022 brought 113 reports from California.
- The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.