UFOMYST
CaseFormation2021

Madera, CA, USA

line of about 10 stars that were moving, the front one disappears and another appears on the back, sometimes stop and go

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2021-05-04
Where
Madera, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
36.961, -120.061 · exact
Slug
formation-over-madera-ca-2021-de44cc
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

  • Madera, CA has 30 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 330 reports from California.
  • The 2020s skewed 5.2% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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