CaseFormation2016

Longmont, CO, USA

11/14/2016 - 4-6 large white circles in two groups moving, disappearing and re-appearing and circling each other in the Eastern sky.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-11-14
Where
Longmont, CO, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
40.167, -105.102 · exact
Slug
formation-over-longmont-co-2016-52b532
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Longmont, CO in November 2016 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Longmont, CO has 94 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 201 reports from Colorado.
  • The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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