CaseFormation2008

San Francisco, CA, USA

observed v-shaped formation moving from ENE to W over evening sky for approx 10seconds

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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  • Duration parsed: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (86 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-03-02
Where
San Francisco, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10 sec
Geo
37.775, -122.419 · exact
Slug
formation-over-san-francisco-ca-2008-aa6da2
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

San Francisco, CA logged 4 reports in the single month of March 2008.

In context

  • One of 241 documented reports from San Francisco, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 709 sightings in 2008.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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