CaseFormation2021
Sparta, CO, USA
Saw the object while in flight
Report quality: Low38/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-12-03
- Where
- Sparta, CO, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 41.033, -74.638 · fallback
- Slug
- formation-over-sparta-co-2021-8312e4
Wave
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
- Sparta, CO shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 119 reports came from Colorado in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.