Roseville, CA, USA
It seemed to be at least 50 objects that were vertical and then the went horizontal with one object brighter than all the others.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-25
- Where
- Roseville, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 38.752, -121.288 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-roseville-ca-2016-af2200
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
- Roseville, CA has 67 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 579 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 3.5% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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