CaseDisk2020

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
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…

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 days

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.