CaseDiamond2020

Summerville, VA, USA

((HOAX??)) A bright light appeared , three colored lights in back. It zigzagged , dropped to the ground behind hill.

Report quality: Low17/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (105 characters)
  • Location geocoded approximately
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2020-12-11
Where
Summerville, VA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
33.019, -80.176 · fallback
Slug
diamond-over-summerville-va-2020-3b6f83
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 Summerville, VA.
  • This case is one of 106 Virginia reports filed in 2020.
  • Diamond craft made up 1.1% of 2020s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.

Report

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