Oakland, CA, USA
So it was the night of the 5th I was getting ready to go to the store and I was looking at the sky cuz you was very clear that night an
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-10-05
- Where
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 37.804, -122.271 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-oakland-ca-2019-38c0b2
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
- Oakland, CA shows up 84 times across the archive.
- 510 reports came from California in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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