Albia, IA, USA
Craft that changed from red to white to blue, and changed in shape. then darted out of sight.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-20
- Where
- Albia, IA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.027, -92.806 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-albia-ia-2004-54bd52
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
- Albia, IA has 2 sightings on file here.
- 2004 brought 37 reports from Iowa.
- The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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