CaseFormation2020
Centennial, CO, USA
Formation of 25-30 light gray objects pass through the night sky.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-01-19
- Where
- Centennial, CO, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 39.579, -104.877 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-centennial-co-2020-e98cd7
Wave
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
- Centennial, CO shows up 25 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%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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