CaseDiamond2011
Elsmere, DE, USA
Aircraft comes and disappears out of thin air.
Report quality: Moderate44/100
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-11-05
- Where
- Elsmere, DE, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1-5 seconds
- Geo
- 39.739, -75.598 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-elsmere-de-2011-7c1be4
Wave
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
- This is one of 9 reports logged in Elsmere, DE.
- This case is one of 15 Delaware reports filed in 2011.
- Diamond craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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