UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2020

El Monte, CA, USA

Looked like a beautiful kite made of glass, the lights were tubular in shape, white, blue, the sound was a soft purring, flying super f

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-05-16
Where
El Monte, CA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
34.069, -118.028 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-el-monte-ca-2020-70385c
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…

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In context

  • El Monte, CA has 14 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 622 reports from California.
  • The 2020s skewed 1.1% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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