UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2021

Palm Springs, CA, USA

Several white orbs flying in perfect formation for 20 minutes

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-05-22
Where
Palm Springs, CA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
33.830, -116.545 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-palm-springs-ca-2021-9cee8c
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Palm Springs, CA reports filed in May 2021.

In context

  • Palm Springs, CA shows up 83 times across the archive.
  • 330 reports came from California in 2021.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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