CaseLight2015

Dubuque, IA, USA

Large craft moving then ceasing along w/ some sort of lighted craft that entered the view of the 'star' lit like craft.

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-07-13
Where
Dubuque, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
42.501, -90.665 · exact
Slug
light-over-dubuque-ia-2015-b23c09
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…

In context

  • Dubuque, IA has 26 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 47 reports from Iowa.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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