CaseFormation2021

Mount Vernon, WA, USA

White dots in a straight line going across the lake high in sky

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (63 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-03-25
Where
Mount Vernon, WA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
48.421, -122.334 · exact
Slug
formation-over-mount-vernon-wa-2021-621450
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

  • Mount Vernon, WA shows up 26 times across the archive.
  • 190 reports came from Washington in 2021.
  • 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.