UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2014

Palm springs, CA, USA

The big, fast spacecraft glares in the sky but then disappeared in the clouds 5 min later lights we're moving in the clounds

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (124 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-12-12
Where
Palm springs, CA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.830, -116.545 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-palm-springs-ca-2014-09c8a1
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Palm springs, CA has 83 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 869 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.

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.