Rancho Mirage, CA, USA
Crafts observed of unknown type moving in formation then vanishing, followed by 5 large disk shaped ships.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 25200s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-06-10
- Where
- Rancho Mirage, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 7 hours
- Geo
- 33.740, -116.413 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-rancho-mirage-ca-2013-802582
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
- One of 14 documented reports from Rancho Mirage, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 728 sightings in 2013.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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