UFOMYST
CaseFormation2018

Manhattan Beach, CA, USA

05/14/18 @ 0155h over LAX v-formation 6 items traveling westerly.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-05-14
Where
Manhattan Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1-2 seconds
Geo
33.885, -118.411 · exact
Slug
formation-over-manhattan-beach-ca-2018-b438bf
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

  • Manhattan Beach, CA has 16 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 331 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% 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.