Sonoma, CA, USA
V formation of lights, moving south to north, VERY FAST, ((NUFORC Note: "Starlink" satellites? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (56 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2019-11-22
- Where
- Sonoma, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 4-7 seconds
- Geo
- 38.292, -122.458 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-sonoma-ca-2019-bb7b42
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
- This is one of 33 reports logged in Sonoma, CA.
- This case is one of 510 California reports filed in 2019.
- Formation craft made up 3.5% of 2010s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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