Tybee island, GA, USA
V-Formation lights with an orb like cloud around it came from the west and moved down then East, large with no sound.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-01
- Where
- Tybee island, GA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4 seconds but 2 events
- Geo
- 32.000, -80.846 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-tybee-island-ga-2022-1dfd97
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
- Tybee island, GA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 23 reports came from Georgia in 2022.
- 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.