CaseFormation2016

Laurel, DE, USA

red lights over Laurel.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (23 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-03
Where
Laurel, DE, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15
Geo
38.556, -75.571 · exact
Slug
formation-over-laurel-de-2016-448571
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 5 reports logged in Laurel, DE.
  • This case is one of 19 Delaware reports filed in 2016.
  • Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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