Lompoc, CA, USA
4 main lights, a bunch of little white lines under neath it, a horrible very loud "high pitched humming" (did not sound like an aircraf
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-04-25
- Where
- Lompoc, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 10-20seconds
- Geo
- 34.639, -120.458 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-lompoc-ca-2005-f89d90
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
- Lompoc, CA shows up 16 times across the archive.
- 539 reports came from California in 2005.
- 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.