CaseChanging1999

Palm Desert, CA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Palm Desert, CA, USA
Start: 1999-05-15
Location: Palm Desert, CA, USA

BRIGHT ORANGE OBJECT WITH WHITE BRIGHT TRAIL TAILING FROM BEHIND LIGHTING UP THE WHOLE MOUNTAIN SIDE, TAIL DISAPERED OBJECT DIMED SLIGH

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
Detailed witness text (135 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1999-05-15
Where: Palm Desert, CA, USA
Shape: Changing
Duration: 45 SECONDS
Geo: 33.723, -116.377 · exact
Slug: changing-over-palm-desert-ca-1999-2b5d25

In context

Palm Desert, CA has 53 sightings on file here.
1999 brought 407 reports from California.
The 1990s skewed 1.9% changing reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.

Report

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