Diamond, OH, USA
A color changing point of light in the sky turns out to be a whole lot more. ((NUFORC Note: Venus. PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 10800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (76 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2008-10-29
- Where
- Diamond, OH, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3 hours
- Geo
- 41.099, -81.023 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-diamond-oh-2008-8cd359
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
- Diamond, OH shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 135 reports came from Ohio in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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