UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2004

Iowa City, IA, USA

Glowing figure dividing until 7 were there, at 3 am

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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 (51 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-04-30
Where
Iowa City, IA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
00:07
Geo
41.661, -91.530 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-iowa-city-ia-2004-71f24d
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…

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In context

  • Iowa City, IA has 32 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 37 reports from Iowa.

Report

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