CaseUnknown2018
New London, IA, USA
MADAR Node 99 test site
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 (23 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-10-17
- Where
- New London, IA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 40.927, -91.400 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-new-london-ia-2018-3c2cf7
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 4 documented reports from New London, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 33 sightings in 2018.
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.