El Paso, TX, USA
With naked eye witnessed entirely lit stationary 'diamond-shaped' object hovering low 1/4 mile or less from backyard before flying off.
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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-05
- Where
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 8-10 minutes
- Geo
- 31.759, -106.487 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-el-paso-tx-2016-6683c3
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
- El Paso, TX shows up 123 times across the archive.
- 159 reports came from Texas in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
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