UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2017

Lynchburg, VA, USA

Filmed Dimond shape object in different spots in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Venus?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (57 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-03-04
Where
Lynchburg, VA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
45 minutes, I went in
Geo
37.414, -79.142 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-lynchburg-va-2017-bcc6c9
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

  • One of 30 documented reports from Lynchburg, VA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Virginia logged 104 sightings in 2017.
  • Diamond sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.4%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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