CaseFormation2005

Fort McMurray (Canada), AB, Canada

Formations of red lights flying across night sky.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-08-28
Where
Fort McMurray (Canada), AB, Canada
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 mins to hour
Geo
56.727, -111.381 · exact
Slug
formation-over-fort-mcmurray-canada-ab-2005-2fef55
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

  • This is one of 11 reports logged in Fort McMurray (Canada), Canada.
  • This case is one of 238 Canada reports filed in 2005.
  • Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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