UFOMYST
CaseLight2014

Burlington, IA, USA

Seen a bright light that seemed to be above tree top or low in the sky moving from north to south slow then it just disappeared.

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: 18s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-04-10
Where
Burlington, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15-20 seconds
Geo
40.808, -91.113 · exact
Slug
light-over-burlington-ia-2014-489169
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 9 reports logged in Burlington, IA.
  • This case is one of 69 Iowa reports filed in 2014.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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