CaseDiamond2008

Manitowoc, WI, USA

Horizontal line of bright white lights accompanied by very small, red lights zig zaging around the object.

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-29
Where
Manitowoc, WI, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
5 mins+
Geo
44.089, -87.658 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-manitowoc-wi-2008-ef1fed
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…

In context

  • This is one of 19 reports logged in Manitowoc, WI.
  • This case is one of 69 Wisconsin reports filed in 2008.
  • Diamond craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.

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.