CaseOther2015

Urbandale, IA, USA

I was doing my job walking dogs when I saw three lights in a diagonal pattern shoot across the sky. Way too fast to be planes/helicopte

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-11-08
Where
Urbandale, IA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3-5 seconds
Geo
41.627, -93.712 · exact
Slug
other-over-urbandale-ia-2015-0a1226
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…

In context

  • This is one of 15 reports logged in Urbandale, IA.
  • This case is one of 47 Iowa reports filed in 2015.
  • Other craft made up 6.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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