CaseFormation2020

McKinleyville, CA, USA

44 unknown crafts. ((Starlink satellites))

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 (18 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-03-25
Where
McKinleyville, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
40.947, -124.101 · exact
Slug
formation-over-mckinleyville-ca-2020-5636df
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

  • McKinleyville, CA shows up 10 times across the archive.
  • 622 reports came from California in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate 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.