Sioux City, IA, USA
We observed a very bright white light heading west to east at a very high rate of speed. We were on the farm and had very good view of
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-12-19
- Where
- Sioux City, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 42.500, -96.400 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sioux-city-ia-2020-079e7f
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
- Sioux City, IA shows up 35 times across the archive.
- 72 reports came from Iowa in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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