CaseDiamond2013

Midlothian, VA, USA

At or around 5:45pm, behind my house, we saw an object in the western sky, that appeared to hover. It appeared to be a cluster of ligh

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-12-01
Where
Midlothian, VA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
37.506, -77.649 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-midlothian-va-2013-70c21a
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…

In context

  • Midlothian, VA has 23 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 205 reports from Virginia.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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