Medford, OR, USA
20 lights in formation across sky. (("Starlink" satellites??))
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-24
- Where
- Medford, OR, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.327, -122.876 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-medford-or-2020-fd1ff4
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
5 reports came out of Medford, OR in February 2020 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Medford, OR has 75 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 237 reports from Oregon.
- The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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