Afton, IA, USA
Started as what looked like a bright bulb then more of them. One was green, changed shapes many many times; some of them are scary loo
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-09
- Where
- Afton, IA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 41.027, -94.198 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-afton-ia-2021-a9b181
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
- One of 1 documented reports from Afton, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 22 sightings in 2021.
- Changing sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).
Report
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