Torrance, CA, USA
The thing we saw was a diamond shape and it was really slow, not an airplane's speed. It had around 5 lights around it. It moved for on
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-03-23
- Where
- Torrance, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 33.836, -118.341 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-torrance-ca-2008-b38fda
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
- Torrance, CA shows up 51 times across the archive.
- 709 reports came from California in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
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