Morro Bay, CA, USA
String of 20 lights in formation west to east over north San Luis Obis county CA. (("Starlink" satellites??))
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-01-13
- Where
- Morro Bay, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 35.366, -120.850 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-morro-bay-ca-2020-68f4f0
Part of a wave
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
- Morro Bay, CA shows up 11 times across the archive.
- 622 reports came from California in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.