Roseville, CA, USA
3 lights in tight formation changing from white to red then green. Loud noise with objects hovering back and fourth. High in sk
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-16
- Where
- Roseville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 38.752, -121.288 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-roseville-ca-2017-b9a880
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…
In context
- Roseville, CA shows up 67 times across the archive.
- 594 reports came from California in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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