Waterloo, IA, USA
A shiny silver object floating stationary then made tight but short movements.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-08-18
- Where
- Waterloo, IA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 5 Minutes
- Geo
- 42.493, -92.343 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-waterloo-ia-2007-9f661f
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
- One of 35 documented reports from Waterloo, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 51 sightings in 2007.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.7% during the 2000s (archive average: 4.3%).
Report
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