UFOMYST
CaseFlash2013

Fort Dodge, IA, USA

Flashes after thundersnow, coworker is missing.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 450s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (47 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-05-02
Where
Fort Dodge, IA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5-10 minutes
Geo
42.497, -94.168 · exact
Slug
flash-over-fort-dodge-ia-2013-e9b54d
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

  • This is one of 10 reports logged in Fort Dodge, IA.
  • This case is one of 81 Iowa reports filed in 2013.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

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.