Fireball over Indio, CA
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The report, as filed
Orange ball of light.
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 2014-04-18 → 2014-05-05
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August 21, 2022 · 9:35 PM · CIGAR
Indio, CA
I was doing my patroll work for talavera when I was coming to a end of my route to do list. I looked into the norther part of the sky and I saw a light, I usually see them. This time it turned out to be, that stood there consistently for more than 10 minutes and eventually Dimmed out ..one of the homeowners herd me saying this came out the the middle of the street and seeing the light just fade away ..not like flying away..like disappear right in front of our eyes.
February 28, 2022 · 3:53 AM · TRIANGLE
Indio, CA
My husband took the dogs outside at 3:47 am on 2-28-22. He came back to the bedroom saying he needed his glasses because he thought he saw a UFO outside. I went out and saw lights darting around the sky rapidly. I ran back in to get my phone to record it and both of us watched two interacting craft / orbs moving rapidly. Disappearing and reappearing thousands of feet away. The orb moved separately from the red looking craft . At the end of my first video, we can hear a small airplane in the distance so we feel someone other than us saw this. There was no sound up until the small plane. I HAVE THE VIDEO and it looks like there are 3 round (thrusters?) On the colorful craft. It moves incredibly fast and went from West to East , up and down within nano seconds. The orb was glowing white. My husband is 65 and I am 61. I have lived in the Coachella Valley for 34 years and am the owner of a business for 16 years.
May 27, 2021 · 9:26 AM · OTHER
Indio, CA
Large inconspicuous booms like explosions for a minute long, dogs barking then silenced and wimpereing. Large flat horizontal line of lights spinning or rotating counter clockwise moving over Indio hills.
December 11, 2019 · 11:00 PM · OTHER
Indio, CA
Looked like an orange star like in the night sky. It stood there for a minute. I thought it was Mars but it was 3 times brighter and it twinkled a bit. It moved slowly to the east north. It faded in and out then another orange light started falling down from it. Seconds later it lit up once more then vanished.
November 16, 2019 · 1:30 AM · FIREBALL
Indio, CA
I saw a burnt orange color object hovering & drops of light fell off of it. I saw 3 drops of light fall down like it was dripping. I woke my partner to see it & it slowly flew away. It hovered for a while before it flew away. It was a very burnt orange color & at first I thought maybe it was Mars until I saw objects falling from it. Like lights coming down or falling down.
January 16, 2018 · 7:00 PM · FORMATION
Indio, CA
A massive plane shaped object with no lights and extremely loud what I think were pulse jets flew under 1000 feet over my house. I do not live near any airports. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD