Clear Lake, IA, USA
It started off looking like a shooting star, but it went more green and turned into a disk shape and zipped off into the distance.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-20
- Where
- Clear Lake, IA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 43.138, -93.379 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-clear-lake-ia-2020-6f36a8
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
- Clear Lake, IA has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 72 reports from Iowa.
- The 2020s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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