CaseFormation2019

Powell River (Canada), BC, Canada

A friend and I witnessed a rigid, boomerang shaped formation of between five and ten lights glide silently over our heads.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-07-30
Where
Powell River (Canada), BC, Canada
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
49.833, -124.524 · exact
Slug
formation-over-powell-river-canada-bc-2019-078b52
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

  • Powell River (Canada), Canada shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 193 reports came from Canada in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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