UFOMYST
CaseChanging2020

palm desert, CA, USA

spinning, flashing light. diamond shaped up by clouds no noise stayed in one spot move slowly straight up day light 4pm similar to uf

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-12-02
Where
palm desert, CA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.723, -116.377 · exact
Slug
changing-over-palm-desert-ca-2020-7ba323
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • palm desert, CA shows up 53 times across the archive.
  • 622 reports came from California in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 3.1% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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