Twenty Nine Palms, CA, USA
Spiraling light falls towards the earth then hovers, makes a 90 degree turn and disappears then reappears 30 mins later not glowing.
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: 50s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-01-05
- Where
- Twenty Nine Palms, CA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 50 seconds
- Geo
- 34.136, -116.054 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-twenty-nine-palms-ca-2010-dbdb51
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
- Twenty Nine Palms, CA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 605 reports came from California in 2010.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.