VA, USA
Sleeping outside with the kids around midnight watching the stars. We saw a shimmering object that flew across the whole horizon in sec
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-26
- Where
- VA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 25 seconds
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- diamond-over-va-2020-542f61
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 case is one of 106 Virginia reports filed in 2020.
- Diamond craft made up 1.1% of 2020s reports, vs 1.4% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.