CaseFormation2005

Beatty, NV, USA

Longitude: 116.7 W, Latitude: 36.9 N I'm a commercial pilot for United Airways, Flight 17.I took off from Las Vegas International t

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 1020s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-02-18
Where
Beatty, NV, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
17 minutes
Geo
36.909, -116.759 · exact
Slug
formation-over-beatty-nv-2005-16bf49
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

  • Beatty, NV shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 56 reports came from Nevada in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 3.1% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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