UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2019

Carpinteria, CA, USA

Thin, rotating, box-like metallic structure with brilliant 'headlamp-like' red/pink/white lights. ((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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-09-14
Where
Carpinteria, CA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
34.399, -119.518 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-carpinteria-ca-2019-149d49
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

  • Carpinteria, CA has 10 sightings on file here.
  • 2019 brought 510 reports from California.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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