UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2017

Carlsbad, CA, USA

We were standing in the tennis court and the sky was severe marine layer when a bright orange red light was coming toward us, all of a

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-08-24
Where
Carlsbad, CA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.158, -117.351 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-carlsbad-ca-2017-7cd093
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

  • Carlsbad, CA has 62 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.

Report

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