CaseFormation2021

Vacaville, CA, USA

I saw 5-7 orange/red lights in a V shaped formation fly directly over my head. ((Possibly 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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-04-09
Where
Vacaville, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
38.357, -121.988 · exact
Slug
formation-over-vacaville-ca-2021-9681b0
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 47 reports logged in Vacaville, CA.
  • This case is one of 330 California 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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