CaseDiamond2020

Quincy, MA, USA

I was at the beach when I noticed something spinning in the sky. I stared at it for a few seconds thinking it was some sort of balloon

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-26
Where
Quincy, MA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
42.253, -71.002 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-quincy-ma-2020-995dff
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

  • Quincy, MA shows up 20 times across the archive.
  • 138 reports came from Massachusetts in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 1.1% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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