CaseDiamond2017

Beaufort, SC, USA

I witness a royal blue light in the shape of a diamond. It lit up the night sky. There was no rain no storms. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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  • Duration parsed: 2s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (109 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-07-26
Where
Beaufort, SC, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
2 seconds
Geo
32.432, -80.670 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-beaufort-sc-2017-e9744c
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

  • Beaufort, SC shows up 13 times across the archive.
  • 109 reports came from South Carolina in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.

Report

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