Light over Cathedral City, CA
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The report, as filed
object comes from behind the moon
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2006-10-06 → 2006-10-23
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December 3, 2021 · 5:30 PM · FORMATION
Cathedral City, CA
I stepped out onto my driveway at 5:40 PM and looked up in the night sky and saw towards the south what I first thought was a shooting star or a plane/ satellite breaking up. I continued to watch and realized the string of lights were not dissipating as you would expect with a meteor breaking up. Instead the string of lights continued to move in a northerly direction, eventually traveling nearly directly above me. The lights all appeared to be the same size but were spaced at irregular intervals and all were traveling at the same speed as if they were either flying in unison or were part of a single craft. They emitted no sound and were moving much slower than a regular aircraft. It was hard to gage the size or distance as I was looking up into darkness and had no other visual reference points. All the lights were the same color, a whitish glow. I tried filming with my iPhone but nothing shows up on the recordings. I did snap two photos. The lights passed over me, again moving at a constant speed in a northerly direction. They eventually faded from view, faster than I would have expected as they were so bright, almost like they disappeared in a fog. I would estimate the whole sighting lasted three minutes and the distance the lights traveled from the time I saw them to when they disappeared to be approximately 5-10 miles as the crow flies. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
December 21, 2020 · 1:40 AM · TRIANGLE
Cathedral City, CA
Triangular object to the south of Palm Springs/Cathedral City, CA over the mountain. Would zig-zag side to side and at times appeared brighter. It backlit clouds. Seemed to have the colors of red, green, and white lights in a bar triangular shape.
January 15, 2019 · 11:00 PM · CIRCLE
Cathedral City, CA
Very big craft came right out of fog no lights no noise just moon light shining off of the craft went right back into fog.
November 25, 2018 · 8:15 PM · SPHERE
Cathedral City, CA
I was outside, with my partner and his friend, taking the dog for a walk. All three of us witnessed the following. We had not had any alcoholic beverages or consumed any prescription medication or the likes that might have resulted in a mind-altered state. At approximately 20:15PST an orange orb appeared in the sky, followed almost immediately by two more orange orbs. They were 3 separate object but flew, silently, together, like a gaggle of geese or a school of fish. The initial orb appeared to drop an unknown object then separate itself from its two counterparts. The orbs flew slowly at first, then hovered for a bit. The two crafts, that were behind the first, eventually caught up to the first. After hovering and slowly, seemingly floating around, as if dancing here and there for a few minutes all three orbs flew at increasing speeds and were gone very quickly. We were in awe and later asked some other friends in passing had anyone else seen this event or heard of anything (military or otherwise) taking place that might have caused the phenomena. However no one wer talked to had seen nor heard of anything. Still, I am left baffled, as I've tried to find an explanation of such an event and have come up empty handed.
October 7, 2018 · 7:30 PM
Cathedral City, CA
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
February 17, 2018 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Cathedral City, CA
Walked out my back door I noticed 2 extremely bright stars in the southern sky just east of Sirius. My wife was sitting out there and I said to her o.m.g look at those bright lights as she looked up & saw them they both faded away .