Osceola, IA, USA
Riding home from work, noticed object in the sky to the west flashing erraticly. After it had flashed once it would reappear off to the
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-11-06
- Where
- Osceola, IA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.034, -93.766 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-osceola-ia-2016-010d81
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
- Osceola, IA has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 41 reports from Iowa.
- The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Report
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