Big Sur, CA, USA
I was at Nepethe Lodge in the Big Sur area with a friend of mine and we were having dinner. I looked up at the sky and thought I was s
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-08-18
- Where
- Big Sur, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- minute
- Geo
- 36.270, -121.807 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-big-sur-ca-1966-38321e
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- One of 9 documented reports from Big Sur, CA in the UFOMYST archive.
- California logged 23 sightings in 1966.
- Diamond sightings ran at 0.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 1.4%).
Report
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