CaseFormation2013
Orangevale, CA, USA
Grouping of orange lights that moved in sync close over the house.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (66 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-12
- Where
- Orangevale, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 38.679, -121.226 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-orangevale-ca-2013-62e9af
Wave
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
- One of 14 documented reports from Orangevale, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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