UFOMYST
CaseFormation2012

Tacoma, WA, USA

I noticed the first one would get bright and then go dim there were about 24 other single lights. ((Starlink satellites))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-04-21
Where
Tacoma, WA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
47.253, -122.444 · exact
Slug
formation-over-tacoma-wa-2012-97c3db
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Tacoma, WA has 197 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 427 reports from Washington.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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