Rochester, WA, USA
Multiple light dashes in perfect formation shot straight up and disappeared. ((Starlink satellites?))
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-13
- Where
- Rochester, WA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 46.822, -123.096 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-rochester-wa-2020-c0db0d
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 16 documented reports from Rochester, WA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Washington logged 371 sightings in 2020.
- Formation sightings ran at 5.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 3.3%).
Report
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