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Active leadUseful case file with unresolved ambiguity and room for more corroboration.

Flashy ball of light/ orb seen with Chris Bledsoe May ‘25

OrbVideoMay 30, 2025, 4:08 AMIndian Wells, California

Source provenance

r/UFOs

UnscoredOpen

Live sighting record 035f3220-2369-4af5-a54c-0b0388b673f7.

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Correlations

Field Intelligence

Moon phase

9% illumination

Waxing crescent — darker sky

Weather

Open-Meteo

Cloud cover46% · Partly cloudy

Area activity

Within 2 daysNo sightings within 60 mi

Credibility

Unscored

Pending

This case has not been reliability-scored yet and still needs stronger corroboration.

Contact in the Desert

Extracted details

Observed facts

Occurred

May 30, 2025, 4:08 AM

Timezone

Pacific Time

Location

Indian Wells, California

Witness account

Narrative

Time: May 29th, 2025/ 9:08pm Location: Indian Wells, California Video taken on an iPhone I’ve debated posting this for a while because sometime the comments are a lot, and ppl have a lot of opinions about Chris. This happened at Contact in the Desert last year. It was the first night we of the conference (not the night he did the sky watch), and a small group of us were chilling on the lawn looking up at the sky. We had satellite and plane tracker apps and were just messing around with those...

Case progression

Timeline

Encounter window5/30/2025, 4:08:00 AM

Witnesses place the encounter near Indian Wells, California.

Published3/30/2026, 4:03:14 PM

r/UFOs carried the report into the source network.

Linked event

Grouped into the Contact in the Desert incident dossier.

Ledger

Evidence

media

Cover image

Open

Visual reference carried with the original report.

source

Original report

Open

Direct source material from r/UFOs.

telemetry

Environmental pass

Historical atmosphere, astronomy, and nearby infrastructure were resolved for this case.