Johnson Valley, CA, USA
Bright light in sky turned into orange triangle and then disappeared into the night
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-02-22
- Where
- Johnson Valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 2-3 min
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- triangle-over-johnson-valley-ca-2022-fc9626
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
- Johnson Valley, CA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 113 reports came from California in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 6.2% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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