Iowa city, IA, USA
It's way up and just hanging there blue red and flashing, been in about the same place for 10 minutes.
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-11
- Where
- Iowa city, IA, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- Ongoing
- Geo
- 41.661, -91.530 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-iowa-city-ia-2013-60602e
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
- Iowa city, IA has 32 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 81 reports from Iowa.
- The 2010s skewed 1.5% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
Report
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