Bear, DE, USA
I've seen this light in the clouds so far three other time's. Going out to smoke twice in Bear once in Newark, DE.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (114 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-05
- Where
- Bear, DE, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 39.629, -75.658 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-bear-de-2016-9a5a4b
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
- Bear, DE shows up 20 times across the archive.
- 19 reports came from Delaware in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
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.