CaseFormation2016

West Farmington, NM, USA

((HOAX??)) As I was driving 3 red lights appeared above a cemetery hill. In orion's formation, flashing.

Report quality: Low11/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2016-03-11
Where
West Farmington, NM, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
Geo
41.391, -80.973 · fallback
Slug
formation-over-west-farmington-nm-2016-08c030
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

  • West Farmington, NM shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 78 reports came from New Mexico in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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