UFOMYST
CaseDisk2017

Waterloo, IA, USA

Brightest looking star you've ever seen, but moved abnormally fast and moved in zig-zag patterns. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))

Report quality: Low35/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2017-09-19
Where
Waterloo, IA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 minutes
Geo
42.493, -92.343 · exact
Slug
disk-over-waterloo-ia-2017-7fb473
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…

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In context

  • Waterloo, IA shows up 35 times across the archive.
  • 45 reports came from Iowa in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 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.