Centerville, IA, USA
Seen several what looked to be planes but had no wings. Looked to be 'fake planes" they went in straight lines and looked like pla
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-08-04
- Where
- Centerville, IA, USA
- Shape
- Cigar
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 42.093, -93.936 · exact
- Slug
- cigar-over-centerville-ia-2019-8281d3
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 6 reports logged in Centerville, IA.
- This case is one of 43 Iowa reports filed in 2019.
- Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.
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.