CaseDiamond2004
Erie, PA, USA
Strange, beautiful, confusing. I wonder what I saw??
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (52 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-04-07
- Where
- Erie, PA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1 1/2 hr
- Geo
- 42.129, -80.085 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-erie-pa-2004-c78f82
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Erie, PA shows up 62 times across the archive.
- 137 reports came from Pennsylvania in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.