Big Sur, CA, USA
Large Bright Object, intially stationary, moves quickly across large area of sky, dropping "balls of light", accelerates into space.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-07
- Where
- Big Sur, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 36.270, -121.807 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-big-sur-ca-2005-a7d41a
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
- Big Sur, CA has 9 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 539 reports from California.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.