CaseDiamond2017

Ashland, NE, USA

Driving on I-80. We look up and see a bright diamond shape object like a star fly away into darkness. ((anonymous report))

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-03-04
Where
Ashland, NE, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
2
Geo
41.039, -96.368 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-ashland-ne-2017-d65fa8
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

  • Ashland, NE shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 25 reports came from Nebraska in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.

Report

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