Taji (Iraq), Iraq
Looking into the sky, while walking over to my vehicle I noticed a star that seemed to move. I stopped and asked my friend if he could
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-01-27
- Where
- Taji (Iraq), Iraq
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 5 MIN
- Geo
- 33.583, 135.950 · fallback
- Slug
- diamond-over-taji-iraq-2010-e80380
Part of a wave
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
- Taji (Iraq), Iraq shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Iraq in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
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