CaseSphere1999
Palm Springs, CA, USA
Got up early to see the waning moon and how close Venus was to it. Sky is very clear in the desert - no lights near because we are in t
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-01-30
- Where
- Palm Springs, CA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5-10 seconds
- Geo
- 33.830, -116.545 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-palm-springs-ca-1999-36c97d
In context
- Palm Springs, CA shows up 83 times across the archive.
- 407 reports came from California in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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