UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2011

Bristol, VA, USA

diamond pattern of round lights passing silently overhead

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-03-17
Where
Bristol, VA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
36.596, -82.188 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-bristol-va-2011-730386
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 17 reports logged in Bristol, VA.
  • This case is one of 100 Virginia reports filed in 2011.
  • Diamond craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.

Report

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