Fonda, IA, USA
White light object rises from tree line and elevates (4 minutes) and disappears. ((NUFORC Note: Bright planet in the E sky? PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2012-09-25
- Where
- Fonda, IA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.581, -94.846 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-fonda-ia-2012-f5b317
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
- This is one of 2 reports logged in Fonda, IA.
- This case is one of 101 Iowa reports filed in 2012.
Report
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