CaseDiamond1957
Rhinebeck, NY, USA
A witness in Rhinebeck, New York reported a kite- or diamond-shaped object that changed through three colors while flashing brightly and jerking up and down, for about 20 seconds in May 1957.
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (191 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1957-05-25
- Where
- Rhinebeck, NY, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 20 seconds
- Geo
- 41.927, -73.913 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-rhinebeck-ny-1957-ebcdd3
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In context
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Rhinebeck, NY.
- This case is one of 8 New York reports filed in 1957.
- Diamond craft made up 1.4% of 1950s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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