CaseDiamond2019

Chula Vista, CA, USA

Experienced what looked like a string of diamonds in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Cluster of "Starlink" satellites. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2019-11-11
Where
Chula Vista, CA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
2-4 minutes
Geo
32.640, -117.084 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-chula-vista-ca-2019-68b1b3
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 41 reports logged in Chula Vista, CA.
  • This case is one of 510 California reports filed in 2019.
  • Diamond craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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