UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2005

Santa Monica, CA, USA

It appeared with three white lights then we saw colored lights and then it went into the clouds and came back out then dissapeared

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-03-21
Where
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
3 Minutes
Geo
34.019, -118.491 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-santa-monica-ca-2005-5adf1d
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Santa Monica, CA has 61 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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