Cummings, IA, USA
4 white lights circling CCW coming together as 1 light separating and repeating pattern. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights? PD))
Report quality: Low31/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded approximately
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-07-28
- Where
- Cummings, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 47.515, -97.080 · fallback
- Slug
- light-over-cummings-ia-2012-74d482
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
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Cummings, IA.
- This case is one of 101 Iowa reports filed in 2012.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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