CaseFireball2005

Various counties, IA, USA

IOWA MUFON REPORT: Fireball/greenish light seen from various Iowa locations by many witnesses & reported to radio show.

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.

  • Duration parsed: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location could not be geocoded
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-09-14
Where
Various counties, IA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5-7 Seconds
Geo
Slug
fireball-over-various-counties-ia-2005-c9c139
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Various counties, IA.
  • This case is one of 44 Iowa reports filed in 2005.
  • Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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