CaseFormation2005

Lake Mead, AZ, USA

Solid White Lights seen south of Temple Bar Road Bonelli Landing Lake Mead Natl Rec Area

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-04-06
Where
Lake Mead, AZ, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
3 hours
Geo
44.385, -107.114 · fallback
Slug
formation-over-lake-mead-az-2005-659776
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 2 reports logged in Lake Mead, AZ.
  • This case is one of 204 Arizona 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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