Oxford Junction, IA, USA
I noticed a strange light out the window of my house to see, two very bright lights. I checked the flightradar24 live website Immediat
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-18
- Where
- Oxford Junction, IA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 41.984, -90.956 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-oxford-junction-ia-2021-b9162d
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
- Oxford Junction, IA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2021 brought 22 reports from Iowa.
- The 2020s skewed 2.6% cigar reports; the archive-wide figure is 2.5%.
Report
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