UFOMYST
CaseLight2017

Palm Springs, CA, USA

The craft emitted light/chem trail. The chem trail seemed to be the source of the light. ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. 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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 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
2017-12-22
Where
Palm Springs, CA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
10-20 minutes
Geo
33.830, -116.545 · exact
Slug
light-over-palm-springs-ca-2017-1a5c63
Wave

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  • 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.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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