CaseFormation2011

Occoquan, Unknown

I was leaving Belmont Bay when I saw a formation of 5-6 reddish lights in a loose formation.

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-09-26
Where
Occoquan, Unknown
Shape
Formation
Duration
2-3 mins
Geo
38.684, -77.260 · fallback
Slug
formation-over-occoquan-2011-406f9f
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

  • Occoquan, Unknown shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 7 reports came from Unknown in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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