Palm Desert, CA, USA
two persons whitness a fast, large stealth fighter like object with no lights in palm desert for six seconds then makes s turn.
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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-02-03
- Where
- Palm Desert, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 6 seconds
- Geo
- 33.723, -116.377 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-palm-desert-ca-2009-95e983
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
- Palm Desert, CA shows up 53 times across the archive.
- 647 reports came from California in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.2% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.
Report
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