Laurel, IA, USA
30 bright objects in early morning hour (5:30 AM) moving NW to SE., lead 3 in a triangle pattern (("Starlink satellites??))
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-02-20
- Where
- Laurel, IA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.884, -92.922 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-laurel-ia-2020-2baf67
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
- Laurel, IA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2020 brought 72 reports from Iowa.
Report
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