Joshua Tree National Monument, CA, USA
Midnight in Joshua Tree- Viewed 4 points of light in diamond-shaped formation as they stopped, spiraled in place, and disappeared.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-05-28
- Where
- Joshua Tree National Monument, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- formation-over-joshua-tree-national-monument-ca-2004-51d38f
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
- Joshua Tree National Monument, CA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 568 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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