La Quinta, CA, USA
Same as last night. Lights, equidistant, moving in a SE direction ((NUFORC Note: Cluster of "Starlink" satellites. PD))
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (65 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2019-11-12
- Where
- La Quinta, CA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 33.663, -116.310 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-la-quinta-ca-2019-5d64a0
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…
Local cluster
La Quinta, CA logged 3 reports in the single month of November 2019.
In context
- One of 19 documented reports from La Quinta, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 510 sightings in 2019.
- Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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