UFOMYST
CaseFormation2016

Roswell, GA, USA

Breaking crowd from fireworks, looked in the sky to the left and notice a formation of orange circles, very distinct formation, stayed

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.

  • Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-04
Where
Roswell, GA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
34.023, -84.362 · exact
Slug
formation-over-roswell-ga-2016-3c801e
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

  • One of 33 documented reports from Roswell, GA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Georgia logged 123 sightings in 2016.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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