CaseUnknown2019
Chelsea, IA, USA
10-12 circular lights lined up on a hill
Report quality: Moderate52/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (40 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-12-27
- Where
- Chelsea, IA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- Unknown
- Geo
- 41.919, -92.395 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-chelsea-ia-2019-3cb043
Wave
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 2 documented reports from Chelsea, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 43 sightings in 2019.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.