Indianola, IA, USA
I was walking my dogs!at night and we were up on a hill—for a moment there seemed to be a shooting star flashing across the tree line.
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: 3s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-09-15
- Where
- Indianola, IA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 3 seconds
- Geo
- 41.358, -93.557 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-indianola-ia-2020-b17863
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
- Indianola, IA has 7 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 72 reports from Iowa.
- The 2020s skewed 1.1% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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