CaseFormation2017

Walnut, CA, USA

Last night, 03NO17, at about 9:05pm, I saw a group of bright stars (about 15-20) in the sky in the City of Walnut, CA.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (118 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-11-03
Where
Walnut, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
34.020, -117.865 · exact
Slug
formation-over-walnut-ca-2017-8b2e36
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

  • Walnut, CA has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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