Nevada desert, NV, USA
I was ou t in the orthern Nevada desert around 9 pm at night, saw this large diamond shape fly over, completly blocked out the sky,
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-12
- Where
- Nevada desert, NV, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- diamond-over-nevada-desert-nv-2012-511bd8
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Nevada desert, NV.
- This case is one of 86 Nevada reports filed in 2012.
- Diamond craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
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