CaseDiamond2000
Long Beach, CA, USA
2 dark circular balls staying stationary for 5 minutes in a contrail that was 3 minutes old. 1 disappeared, another into a cloud.
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 (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-10-15
- Where
- Long Beach, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 33.767, -118.189 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-long-beach-ca-2000-4ff4e9
In context
- Long Beach, CA shows up 142 times across the archive.
- 439 reports came from California in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Report
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