Palm Spring/Indio, CA, USA
5-6 bright lights in straight line from afar, stationary, not blinking whitish-yellow, up close it's light from a round silent craft.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-02-21
- Where
- Palm Spring/Indio, CA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.721, -116.217 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-palm-spring-indio-ca-2011-30821b
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Palm Spring/Indio, CA.
- This case is one of 624 California reports filed in 2011.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.