San Bernardino, CA, USA
3 round white disks flying in formation,hovered then a forth appeared, then all four sped off.
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (94 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-03-18
- Where
- San Bernardino, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 34.108, -117.290 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-san-bernardino-ca-2009-6656a3
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 73 documented reports from San Bernardino, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 647 sightings in 2009.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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