Ormond Beach, FL, USA
Black, three dimensional, diamond shaped object which remained perfectly still for an hour and exhibited a faint orange glow around it
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-23
- Where
- Ormond Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1 hour +
- Geo
- 29.286, -81.056 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-ormond-beach-fl-2005-245cea
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
- One of 29 documented reports from Ormond Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 244 sightings in 2005.
- Diamond sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 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.