CaseSphere2016

Indio, CA, USA

4 Bright Red lights coming over Indio Hills

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (43 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-06-08
Where
Indio, CA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
33.721, -116.217 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-indio-ca-2016-b6a5c1
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…

In context

  • One of 33 documented reports from Indio, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • California logged 579 sightings in 2016.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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