UFOMYST
CaseFormation2020

Long Beach, CA, USA

3 soft white non-blinking lights in an equilateral triangle formation, could not tell if there was a solid hull, traveled N to S.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-03-17
Where
Long Beach, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
1-2 minutes
Geo
33.767, -118.189 · exact
Slug
formation-over-long-beach-ca-2020-337ff5
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Long Beach, CA has 142 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 622 reports from California.
  • The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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