La Quinta, CA, USA
It was close to 8pm in the desert when a light in the eastern sky was bright and light beams shot accross the evening sky. We were in
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-04-14
- Where
- La Quinta, CA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- one minute or so
- Geo
- 33.663, -116.310 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-la-quinta-ca-2006-fe9102
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
- This is one of 19 reports logged in La Quinta, CA.
- This case is one of 561 California reports filed in 2006.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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