CaseFormation2008
Westmoreland (5 miles NE of), CA, USA
Rural farmland wedge shaped lights moving very fast.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-04
- Where
- Westmoreland (5 miles NE of), CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5-6 seconds
- Geo
- 36.562, -86.248 · fallback
- Slug
- formation-over-westmoreland-5-miles-ne-of-ca-2008-2ba76e
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 1 reports logged in Westmoreland (5 miles NE of), CA.
- This case is one of 709 California reports filed in 2008.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s 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.