CaseFormation2012

Lincoln City, OR, USA

3 orangish/reddish round "lights" flying north of us, above the beach. They were in a straight vertical line.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-07-28
Where
Lincoln City, OR, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10 minutes approx
Geo
44.958, -124.018 · exact
Slug
formation-over-lincoln-city-or-2012-88867b
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

  • Lincoln City, OR shows up 45 times across the archive.
  • 181 reports came from Oregon in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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