CaseFormation2018

Guerneville, CA, USA

Three lights in a triangle formation. Very ( very ) bright lights. They were far away, but each one would have been as bright as a st

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-07-25
Where
Guerneville, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
three minutes
Geo
38.502, -122.996 · exact
Slug
formation-over-guerneville-ca-2018-606841
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…

In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Guerneville, CA.
  • This case is one of 331 California reports filed in 2018.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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