UFOMYST
CaseCircle2021

Rancho Mirage, CA, USA

Over Twenty White Dots in a line ~ Some Flared ~ Rancho Mirage, CA

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (66 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-22
Where
Rancho Mirage, CA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
33.740, -116.413 · exact
Slug
circle-over-rancho-mirage-ca-2021-b01540
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • Rancho Mirage, CA shows up 14 times across the archive.
  • 330 reports came from California in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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