UFOMYST
CaseFormation2017

Palm Springs, CA, USA

((HOAX??)) The word "Mars"; written In the Sky by lights. ((anonymous report))((NUFORC Note: No other reports submitted. PD))

Report quality: Low18/100

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  • Duration parsed: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2017-03-18
Where
Palm Springs, CA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
33.830, -116.545 · exact
Slug
formation-over-palm-springs-ca-2017-1f0d58
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

  • One of 83 documented reports from Palm Springs, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 594 sightings in 2017.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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