CaseDiamond2020

Reno, NV, USA

Driving, entering freeway, and for a brief moment I witnessed a glowing diamond shaped light hovering almost touching the pavement floo

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-24
Where
Reno, NV, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
Seconds
Geo
39.530, -119.814 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-reno-nv-2020-7983e3
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

  • Reno, NV shows up 189 times across the archive.
  • 93 reports came from Nevada 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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