Palm Desert, CA, USA
A silver colored baseball bat shaped object fell from the sky in between the passing of 3 military jets.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-26
- Where
- Palm Desert, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 33.723, -116.377 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-palm-desert-ca-2020-36be39
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.
- 622 reports came from California in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 2.6% of reports described a cigar — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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