UFOMYST
CaseFormation2017

Hawthorne, CA, USA

RED light seen at night gliding together and lights disappearing one by one along with sound. ((anonymous report))

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-08
Where
Hawthorne, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1-3 minutes
Geo
33.916, -118.353 · exact
Slug
formation-over-hawthorne-ca-2017-768dca
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

  • One of 16 documented reports from Hawthorne, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 594 sightings in 2017.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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