CaseCircle2015

Rancho Mirage, CA, USA

Three orange/red objects tracking across the sky. Easily visible; viewed clearly by 4 adults.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-04-04
Where
Rancho Mirage, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minute
Geo
33.740, -116.413 · exact
Slug
circle-over-rancho-mirage-ca-2015-d1ffb4
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…

In context

  • Rancho Mirage, CA has 14 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 814 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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