Indio, CA, USA
RED AND BLUE LIGHT THAT FLEW ERRATICALLY LIKE AN INSECT AT SPEEDS 3X OF A PLANE!
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-06-12
- Where
- Indio, CA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- 33.721, -116.217 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-indio-ca-2010-219874
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 33 documented reports from Indio, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 605 sightings in 2010.
- Flash sightings ran at 2% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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