Sioux City, IA, USA
Bright star seen in middle of day. With binoculars you could see it was a flying saucer like object
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-08-16
- Where
- Sioux City, IA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- Several hours
- Geo
- 42.500, -96.400 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-sioux-city-ia-2020-76e884
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
- Sioux City, IA shows up 35 times across the archive.
- 72 reports came from Iowa in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
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.