Palo, IA, USA
Bright yellow, red, and green lights, weirdly changed to all white, these lights were hovering in mid-air.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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
- Moderate witness text (106 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-06-01
- Where
- Palo, IA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- on-going
- Geo
- 42.066, -91.795 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-palo-ia-2013-d841f7
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 Palo, IA.
- This case is one of 81 Iowa reports filed in 2013.
Report
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