Dubai (UAE), United Arab Emirates
clear diamond shape thing with blue and orange light came close to land but did not land on it and vanished
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (107 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-16
- Where
- Dubai (UAE), United Arab Emirates
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 2min
- Geo
- 25.077, 55.309 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-dubai-uae-2004-2574f6
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
- Dubai (UAE), United Arab Emirates shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from United Arab Emirates in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
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