UFOMYST
CaseLight2020

West Branch, IA, USA

Driving south on Garfield towards spring dale, during an early/bright sunset, I saw to the East a BRILLIANT large bright light, hoverin

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-04-06
Where
West Branch, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
00:05 aka 5 mins
Geo
41.671, -91.347 · exact
Slug
light-over-west-branch-ia-2020-259d8f
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in West Branch, IA.
  • This case is one of 72 Iowa reports filed in 2020.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2020s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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