Palm Springs, CA, USA
I witnessed odd lights while driving west on Racket Club Dr. early Tuesday morning. Roughly 1/5 of the way up the silhouette of Mount S
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-06-27
- Where
- Palm Springs, CA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.830, -116.545 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-palm-springs-ca-2017-4991db
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
- Palm Springs, CA shows up 83 times across the archive.
- 594 reports came from California in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 1.7% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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