Palm Springs, CA, USA
Formation of ten bright lights over Palm Springs
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (48 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-05-06
- Where
- Palm Springs, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 1-2 minutes
- Geo
- 33.830, -116.545 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-palm-springs-ca-2021-760212
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Palm Springs, CA reports filed in May 2021.
In context
- Palm Springs, CA shows up 83 times across the archive.
- 330 reports came from California in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 5.2% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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