UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2004

Lynchburg, VA, USA

VERY bright, diamond shape ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-03-23
Where
Lynchburg, VA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
30 min+
Geo
37.414, -79.142 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-lynchburg-va-2004-a274e3
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Lynchburg, VA has 30 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 55 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.

Report

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