San Bernardino, CA, USA
So, we were flying over San Bernardino to Apple Valley, and I was looking for air traffic. About 100 feet below us just off of our rig
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-02-13
- Where
- San Bernardino, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- Flew by 10 seconds
- Geo
- 34.108, -117.290 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-san-bernardino-ca-2022-21a837
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
- San Bernardino, CA has 73 sightings on file here.
- 2022 brought 113 reports from California.
- The 2020s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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