Geography
USS Jackson is an Independence-class littoral combat ship in the U.S. Navy’s LCS fleet, delivered in 2015 as part of the Independence variant program and deployed under coastal strike mission contexts used around littoral operating areas.1
Naval public releases later describe the ship as homeported in San Diego and part of Littoral Combat Ship Squadron One, placing its peacetime operating footprint squarely in Southern California tasking.2
The location coordinates above are the same reporting point used for the 2023 W-291 event narrative carried into hearing records, so this map point tracks that shipboard narrative geography.23
Hearing context
The story originates in a House Oversight hearing on 9 September 2025 focused on UAP transparency and whistleblower protection, which formally announced witnesses and created the official proceeding where USS Jackson was first tied to congressional testimony.45
Chief Alexandro Wiggins filed a written statement for that hearing and described being aboard USS Jackson in the W-291 Warning Area at 19:15 PST on 15 February 2023 when he observed the trans-medium object sequence.3
The hearing package and wrap-up materials then carry this account into committee deliberation, reframing it from a single anecdote into a source chain issue around sensor handling and reporting systems.5678
Source chain
The public source chain here is explicit and bounded: Navy release material establishes vessel identity and operating base, while the hearing file links the incident through witness packet, hearing transcript, and official webcast archive.124367
That chain does not require intermediaries for provenance because each layer is maintained in congressional and Navy primary records that can be traced independently from the written statement to committee record closure.598