UFOMYST
CaseOval2010

Indio, CA, USA

Two perfectly shaped oval white clouds suddenly appeared,then a pod flew out and returned back up into the cloud.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (113 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-10-05
Where
Indio, CA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
33.721, -116.217 · exact
Slug
oval-over-indio-ca-2010-e94c23
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…

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In context

  • Indio, CA has 33 sightings on file here.
  • 2010 brought 605 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Report

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