Cathedral City, CA, USA
Bright multi-colored flashing UFO seen above the mountains of Palm Springs, California in August, 2013.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-01
- Where
- Cathedral City, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 33.780, -116.465 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-cathedral-city-ca-2013-a1d11b
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
- This is one of 24 reports logged in Cathedral City, CA.
- This case is one of 728 California reports filed in 2013.
Report
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