CaseFormation2011
Warrenton, VA, USA
Strange lights above Warrenton,Virginia.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-10-08
- Where
- Warrenton, VA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 38.713, -77.795 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-warrenton-va-2011-0bcd41
Wave
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
- This is one of 11 reports logged in Warrenton, VA.
- This case is one of 100 Virginia reports filed in 2011.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
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.