UFOMYST
CaseSphere2020

Rancho mirage, CA, USA

Noticed a sphere staying still in the sky. Clouds moving above it. Not moving for hours. Seemed like it soaking up the morning sun. As

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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-12-11
Where
Rancho mirage, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 hours
Geo
33.740, -116.413 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-rancho-mirage-ca-2020-4f2adb
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

  • One of 14 documented reports from Rancho mirage, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 622 sightings in 2020.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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