CaseFormation2019

Milpitas, CA, USA

3 Objects, triangle formation, irregular, rapidly blinking pattern of red lights over Milpitas California.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-10-07
Where
Milpitas, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
37.428, -121.907 · exact
Slug
formation-over-milpitas-ca-2019-66f027
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

  • Milpitas, CA has 18 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 510 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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