New Hampton, IA, USA
2 HUGE BRIGHT STATIONARY LIGHTS IN THE SKY. ((NUFORC Note: Venus and Jupiter currently are prominent in the sw sky. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2008-11-25
- Where
- New Hampton, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 43.059, -92.318 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-new-hampton-ia-2008-eac587
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 New Hampton, IA.
- This case is one of 36 Iowa reports filed in 2008.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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