CaseFormation2019

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
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…

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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