Polk City, IA, USA
I was walking my dog before the 10:00 news, looked up at the sky and saw an orange glowing object.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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
- Moderate witness text (98 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-04
- Where
- Polk City, IA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 mins total
- Geo
- 41.771, -93.713 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-polk-city-ia-2010-9cd9e1
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
- Polk City, IA has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 50 reports from Iowa.
- The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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