Nipomo, CA, USA
Diamond shape appeared with a red streak then vanished no trace of the red colored smoked after the other 2 were just floating.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (127 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-12-24
- Where
- Nipomo, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 0:00
- Geo
- 35.043, -120.476 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-nipomo-ca-2014-68445b
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
- Nipomo, CA has 14 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 869 reports from California.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Report
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