Miami, FL, USA
I cant tell you the exact time or date because it was so long ago.However it was late night and loud scaping noises on the roof woke us
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-06-01
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 20 sec.
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-miami-fl-1977-1d191a
Part of a wave
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In context
- This is one of 340 reports logged in Miami, FL.
- This case is one of 15 Florida reports filed in 1977.
- Diamond craft made up 0.7% of 1970s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.