CaseFormation2009
Earp, CA, USA
A momentary string of orange-yellow lights near CA-AZ border.
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-02-04
- Where
- Earp, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 34.165, -114.301 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-earp-ca-2009-f6dd49
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
- One of 4 documented reports from Earp, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 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.