UFOMYST
CaseChanging2020

Maxwell, IA, USA

What appeared to be a bright light in the western sky started changing from a ball to a vertical shape with blue and orange lights emit

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-01-04
Where
Maxwell, IA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
41.892, -93.400 · exact
Slug
changing-over-maxwell-ia-2020-a9f4ed
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Maxwell, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 72 sightings in 2020.
  • Changing sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 2.5%).

Report

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