UFOMYST
CaseFormation2004

Petaluma, CA, USA

6 small disks grouped together, changing formation, variable brightness, visible for 15 minutes, no clouds.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-09-22
Where
Petaluma, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
15 mins
Geo
38.232, -122.637 · exact
Slug
formation-over-petaluma-ca-2004-372a4f
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

  • Petaluma, CA has 43 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.

Report

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