UFOMYST
CaseDiamond2010

Merrill, IA, USA

Red/Bluish colored lights over Merrill Rural Areas.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-07-19
Where
Merrill, IA, USA
Shape
Diamond
Duration
2 minitues
Geo
42.720, -96.249 · exact
Slug
diamond-over-merrill-ia-2010-27ba57
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

  • Merrill, IA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 50 reports came from Iowa in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a diamond — the all-time rate is 1.4%.

Report

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