CaseFormation2020

Jacksonville, FL, USA

I was out on my back porch watching the sky since it was clear and coming from behind me, over my place, were these bright white orbs.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-01-13
Where
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
30.332, -81.656 · exact
Slug
formation-over-jacksonville-fl-2020-2dbf80
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

  • Jacksonville, FL shows up 256 times across the archive.
  • 403 reports came from Florida in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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