UFOMYST
CaseChanging2004

Muscatine, IA, USA

3 lighted object ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus, we suspect. PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (16 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-04-25
Where
Muscatine, IA, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
60mins.
Geo
41.424, -91.043 · exact
Slug
changing-over-muscatine-ia-2004-4e3304
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

  • This is one of 17 reports logged in Muscatine, IA.
  • This case is one of 37 Iowa reports filed in 2004.
  • Changing craft made up 2.8% of 2000s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Report

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