Hiawatha, IA, USA
we saw a circle aircraft moving west at 20 mph fly only 200 yards off the ground.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-08-27
- Where
- Hiawatha, IA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 42.036, -91.682 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-hiawatha-ia-2010-b9156c
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
- Hiawatha, IA shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 50 reports came from Iowa in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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