Iowa Falls, IA, USA
A circular object, alternating between a disk and a shape shifting blob, paced the truck that I was driving.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 840s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (108 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-02-18
- Where
- Iowa Falls, IA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 14 minutes
- Geo
- 42.522, -93.251 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-iowa-falls-ia-2021-83832d
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 1 reports logged in Iowa Falls, IA.
- This case is one of 22 Iowa reports filed in 2021.
- Changing craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 2.5% 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.