Palm Desert, CA, USA
Black triangle w/red & green flashing lights, above air traffic lanes, hovering then EXTREMELY fast drop to very low altitude
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-03-26
- Where
- Palm Desert, CA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.723, -116.377 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-palm-desert-ca-2022-5cb8d3
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
- One of 53 documented reports from Palm Desert, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 113 sightings in 2022.
- Triangle sightings ran at 6.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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