CaseDiamond2014
Orange, CA, USA
Orange vibrating diamond hovering.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (34 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-01-30
- Where
- Orange, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.788, -117.853 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-orange-ca-2014-414528
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
- Orange, CA has 43 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 869 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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