UFOMYST
CaseLight2014

Cathedral City, CA, USA

Long straight light or reflection from sun on metal craft. Looked about a mile long and was in the sky above 29 Palms military base.

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-10-14
Where
Cathedral City, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
25 minutes
Geo
33.780, -116.465 · exact
Slug
light-over-cathedral-city-ca-2014-94d23b
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

  • One of 24 documented reports from Cathedral City, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 869 sightings in 2014.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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