CaseDiamond2013

Elgin, SC, USA

Large object with one bright white at each corner (square shaped) moving slowly and low over town. ((NUFORC Note: From a/c mech. PD))

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 1s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (98 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-04-15
Where
Elgin, SC, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
1
Geo
34.673, -80.719 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-elgin-sc-2013-bab9c4
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

  • One of 4 documented reports from Elgin, SC in the UFOMYST archive.
  • South Carolina logged 159 sightings in 2013.
  • Diamond sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.4%).

Report

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