CaseFlash2009
Perry, IA, USA
Very fast moving light(green), south of Perry, IA
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (49 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-02
- Where
- Perry, IA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- very short
- Geo
- 41.839, -94.107 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-perry-ia-2009-8367bb
Wave
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
- Perry, IA shows up 5 times across the archive.
- 42 reports came from Iowa in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.8% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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