UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2008

Philapdlphia, PA, USA

seen object with telescope moving in a circular motion relitive to the size of a thumbnail. ((NUFORC Note: Star?? PD))

Report quality: Low29/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (91 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2008-09-26
Where
Philapdlphia, PA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
2 hrs
Geo
—
Slug
diamond-over-philapdlphia-pa-2008-962bbf
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Philapdlphia, PA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Pennsylvania logged 193 sightings in 2008.
  • Diamond sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.4%).

Report

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