CaseFormation2006
Garden Valley, CA, USA
Training Missions every night over Sacramento
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 28800s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (45 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-08
- Where
- Garden Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- All night
- Geo
- 38.854, -120.859 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-garden-valley-ca-2006-8b4724
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
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Garden Valley, CA.
- This case is one of 561 California reports filed in 2006.
- Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
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.