CaseDiamond2008

Southbridge, VA, USA

Pulsating, moving, diamond-shaped object spotted north of Quantico Marine Base on evening of July 7, 2008

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-07-07
Where
Southbridge, VA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
42.075, -72.033 · fallback
Slug
diamond-over-southbridge-va-2008-6725a4
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Southbridge, VA.
  • This case is one of 100 Virginia reports filed in 2008.
  • Diamond craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.

Report

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