Desert Hot Springs, CA, USA
Strange light in northern sky over Coachella Valley. ((NUFORC Note: Re-entering space debris. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 2100s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2015-12-22
- Where
- Desert Hot Springs, CA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- :35
- Geo
- 33.962, -116.504 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-desert-hot-springs-ca-2015-7dcc0d
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
- Desert Hot Springs, CA shows up 15 times across the archive.
- 814 reports came from California in 2015.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
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.