CaseFormation2021
South Hill West of Orting, WA, USA
Lights in and out of formation over Orting towards Carbonado.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-07-03
- Where
- South Hill West of Orting, WA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 3 mins
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- formation-over-south-hill-west-of-orting-wa-2021-106b82
Wave
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 1 reports logged in South Hill West of Orting, WA.
- This case is one of 190 Washington reports filed in 2021.
- Formation craft made up 5.2% of 2020s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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