UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2008

Mt. Charleston, NV, USA

On our way back home from our ski trip [dad and I], I decided to record the scenery one last time. We didnt notice the peculiar object

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-21
Where
Mt. Charleston, NV, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
5 Sec
Geo
36.257, -115.643 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-mt-charleston-nv-2008-d9f3c4
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

  • Mt. Charleston, NV shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 70 reports came from Nevada in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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