California, MD, USA
3 orangey amber oval lights approached from east in formation to west at high rate of speed, slight wave pattern
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-02-13
- Where
- California, MD, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- Less than 1 minute
- Geo
- 38.300, -76.507 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-california-md-2022-3effd4
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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
- California, MD has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2022 brought 11 reports from Maryland.
- The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
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