Dubuque, IA, USA
February 1, 2017 was driving west, alone across Julien Dubuque bridge.(Between Iowa and Ill.) When looking up I saw a disk shaped c
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-02-01
- Where
- Dubuque, IA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 42.501, -90.665 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-dubuque-ia-2017-01e8f8
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
- This is one of 26 reports logged in Dubuque, IA.
- This case is one of 45 Iowa reports filed in 2017.
- Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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