Salton Sea, CA, USA
((HOAX??)) I was driving north on highway 86 just passing the salton sea when i noticed an egg shaped object
Report quality: Low21/100
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- Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- Summary contains a HOAX marker
- When
- 2008-03-29
- Where
- Salton Sea, CA, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 33.314, -115.817 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-salton-sea-ca-2008-6dade1
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
- Salton Sea, CA has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 1.1% egg reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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