Sonora, CA, USA
Caught on camera using super slow motion setting revield this craft on video
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-02-15
- Where
- Sonora, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- A few seconds
- Geo
- 37.984, -120.382 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-sonora-ca-2022-a4817c
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
- Sonora, CA shows up 30 times across the archive.
- 113 reports came from California in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 3.5% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.