Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA
Bright white Diamond shaped craft with bright vapor trail seen in Fort Walton Beach, FL 7/10/12
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-07-10
- Where
- Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 2-3 seconds
- Geo
- 30.421, -86.617 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-fort-walton-beach-fl-2012-8ffb57
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
- Fort Walton Beach, FL has 17 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 459 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Report
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