UFOMYST
CaseCircle2021

Palm Springs, CA, USA

Notice a light flashing in the mountain. Blue then red. It's wilderness area no roads or homes. Started watching it and began to move f

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-30
Where
Palm Springs, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30 sec
Geo
33.830, -116.545 · exact
Slug
circle-over-palm-springs-ca-2021-953d39
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Palm Springs, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of May 2021.

In context

  • One of 83 documented reports from Palm Springs, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 330 sightings in 2021.
  • Circle sightings ran at 11.9% during the 2020s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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