CaseDiamond2002
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
We saw a soundless, dimly-lit, fast gliding craft at midnight that was unlike any aircraft known.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-08-10
- Where
- Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 36.974, -122.031 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-santa-cruz-ca-2002-0de60a
In context
- This is one of 76 reports logged in Santa Cruz, CA.
- This case is one of 430 California reports filed in 2002.
- Diamond craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Report
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