UFOMYST
CaseSphere2015

Council Bluffs, IA, USA

Slow-moving to the north, with red flashing lights.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-08-11
Where
Council Bluffs, IA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
~1 hour
Geo
41.262, -95.861 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-council-bluffs-ia-2015-2ca13c
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 37 documented reports from Council Bluffs, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 47 sightings in 2015.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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