Palm Desert, CA, USA
I cant be certain on the date but I know it was in 2004 we kept having power surges that eveing i thought it was just maybe my house s
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-30
- Where
- Palm Desert, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cross
- Duration
- one hour
- Geo
- 33.723, -116.377 · exact
- Slug
- cross-over-palm-desert-ca-2004-0bc4a2
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.
- 568 reports came from California in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 0.3% of reports described a cross — the all-time rate is 0.3%.
Report
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