CaseUnknown2016
Morongo valley, CA, USA
Probably meteor fire behind.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-09-18
- Where
- Morongo valley, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 34.047, -116.581 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-morongo-valley-ca-2016-028d5f
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
- Morongo valley, CA shows up 9 times across the archive.
- 579 reports came from California in 2016.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.