Salton City, CA, USA
My friend and I witness approximately 13 very bright amber yellow round lights that held in a hover position they changed formation
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-03-30
- Where
- Salton City, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4-5 min
- Geo
- 33.299, -115.956 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-salton-city-ca-2022-07fd61
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
- One of 2 documented reports from Salton City, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 113 sightings in 2022.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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