UFOMYST
CaseDisk2005

Eldridge, IA, USA

MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP Report: I saw a bright circular metal object in the sky which seemed to hover.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (107 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-10-28
Where
Eldridge, IA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
41.658, -90.585 · exact
Slug
disk-over-eldridge-ia-2005-94e5c9
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Eldridge, IA has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 44 reports from Iowa.
  • The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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