Mason City, IA, USA
didnt notice untill my friend asked me if i saw what he saw the object was in the sky very far away, may have been in space but couldn
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-25
- Where
- Mason City, IA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5 Minutes
- Geo
- 43.154, -93.201 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-mason-city-ia-2005-c23213
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
- Mason City, IA shows up 10 times across the archive.
- 44 reports came from Iowa in 2005.
Report
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