Vista, CA, USA
It came fast from East to West, slowed quickly and stopped then flew quickly toward the north star, with no sound
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-03-14
- Where
- Vista, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 33.200, -117.243 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-vista-ca-2022-94b2ad
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
- Vista, CA shows up 41 times across the archive.
- 113 reports came from California in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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