UFOMYST
CaseFormation2016

Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa

4 bright lights moving in formation in CPT

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (42 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-08
Where
Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa
Shape
Formation
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
-33.926, 18.423 · exact
Slug
formation-over-cape-town-south-africa-2016-b42f68
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…

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In context

  • Cape Town (South Africa), South Africa shows up 19 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from South Africa in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Report

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