CaseDiamond2008

Rowland Heights, CA, USA

Huge dark object flying over the san gabriel mountain

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (53 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-04-15
Where
Rowland Heights, CA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
33.976, -117.905 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-rowland-heights-ca-2008-000cf1
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…

In context

  • Rowland Heights, CA has 4 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 709 reports from California.
  • The 2000s skewed 1.6% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.

Report

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