CaseUnknown2011
Palm Springs (north of), CA, USA
Orange fireball viewed near 10 Fwy in CA North of Palm Springs
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-09-14
- Where
- Palm Springs (north of), CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- four to five seconds
- Geo
- 33.830, -116.545 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-palm-springs-north-of-ca-2011-7cbfd6
Wave
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 1 documented reports from Palm Springs (north of), CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 624 sightings in 2011.
Report
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