Keokuk, IA, USA
A extremly bright ball of light shot across the night sky a couple of thousand feet in the air then diappeared.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-02
- Where
- Keokuk, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-4 seconds
- Geo
- 40.397, -91.385 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-keokuk-ia-2009-0beb9c
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
- Keokuk, IA has 10 sightings on file here.
- 2009 brought 42 reports from Iowa.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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