Pella, IA, USA
Was a bright ball of light that just hoovering for a good few hours and as the it got darker it changed from bright to an Orange reddis
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-01-29
- Where
- Pella, IA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 41.408, -92.916 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-pella-ia-2018-1046c3
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
- Pella, IA shows up 4 times across the archive.
- 33 reports came from Iowa in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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