Landers, CA, USA
Large Diamond Shape UFO sighted by a group of 50 people during a UFO sighting at Giant Rock, CA, was chased by a military helicopter.
Report quality: High73/100
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 (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-05-21
- Where
- Landers, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 34.266, -116.393 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-landers-ca-2017-df47fd
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Landers, CA in May 2017 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Landers, CA has 11 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 594 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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