Iowa City, IA, USA
Ufo spotted by IC Eastern airport. Round sphered shaped with 3 three lights view looked triangle. Slowly gliding came at car
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-07
- Where
- Iowa City, IA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 41.661, -91.530 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-iowa-city-ia-2012-c3ab64
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 is one of 32 reports logged in Iowa City, IA.
- This case is one of 101 Iowa reports filed in 2012.
- Changing craft made up 2.4% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
Report
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