Ankeny, IA, USA
A single, bright orange light moving from west to east changing speed, then turning north and vanishing.
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-06-06
- Where
- Ankeny, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 41.730, -93.606 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ankeny-ia-2014-44210e
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
- One of 12 documented reports from Ankeny, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 69 sightings in 2014.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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