CaseFormation2020

Arvada, CO, USA

34 Points of light traveling in a straight line equidistant from each other over the course of 8 minutes.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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  • Duration parsed: 480s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-02-27
Where
Arvada, CO, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
8 minutes
Geo
39.803, -105.087 · exact
Slug
formation-over-arvada-co-2020-3bbad2
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  • Historical wave2004

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    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

  • Arvada, CO shows up 55 times across the archive.
  • 226 reports came from Colorado in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

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