UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Lemars, IA, USA

Bright aircraft caught my eye at dawn in the west and flew east. Seemed to be closer than planes usually fly but crossed the horizon at

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-06-06
Where
Lemars, IA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
42.794, -96.166 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lemars-ia-2012-e60965
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Lemars, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 101 sightings in 2012.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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