CaseLight2020

Fairfield, IA, USA

Upstairs neighbor knocked on our door and led us outside. She said it was tons of drones. (("Starlink" satellites??))a

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (92 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-09
Where
Fairfield, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
>30 minutes
Geo
41.009, -91.963 · exact
Slug
light-over-fairfield-ia-2020-ec1adc
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

  • One of 14 documented reports from Fairfield, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 72 sightings in 2020.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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