CaseFormation2021

Suffolk, VA, USA

2 Rows of 4-5 vertical white solid lights moving slowly together in the evening sky, just over the tree lines. ((Starlink satellites??

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: 38s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-28
Where
Suffolk, VA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30-45 seconds
Geo
36.728, -76.585 · exact
Slug
formation-over-suffolk-va-2021-b23f59
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

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Suffolk, VA.
  • This case is one of 59 Virginia reports filed in 2021.
  • Formation craft made up 5.2% of 2020s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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