Palm Springs, AZ, USA
Picture taken, object cannot be explained. No reflection possible we can explain. Have photo to share
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-02-26
- Where
- Palm Springs, AZ, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 33.405, -111.538 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-palm-springs-az-2016-a04969
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
- Palm Springs, AZ shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 238 reports came from Arizona in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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