Desert Center, CA, USA
Stadium sized ship slowly rotated 180 degrees then 5-6 silver balls of light slowly flew out - Desert Center, CA
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (112 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-18
- Where
- Desert Center, CA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 min.
- Geo
- 33.713, -115.402 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-desert-center-ca-2010-e20c99
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
- Desert Center, CA has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 605 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.
Report
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