CaseDiamond1996
Gainesville, FL, USA
Man, wife, and 6-yr. old daughter witness "huge, diamond-shaped" obj. SE of city. Obj. had "massive floodlights," passed overhead.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-02-18
- Where
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 5 min.
- Geo
- 29.652, -82.325 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-gainesville-fl-1996-233a8b
In context
- Gainesville, FL has 71 sightings on file here.
- 1996 brought 50 reports from Florida.
- The 1990s skewed 1.3% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Report
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