Palm Springs, CA, USA
Dark, unlit, wing-shaped UFO flew over Palm Springs - NNW to SSE - 12:05 am 9/26/05
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-26
- Where
- Palm Springs, CA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 33.830, -116.545 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-palm-springs-ca-2005-2e13eb
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 83 reports logged in Palm Springs, CA.
- This case is one of 539 California reports filed in 2005.
- Chevron craft made up 1.2% of 2000s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Report
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