UFOMYST
CaseCircle2011

Ames, IA, USA

White bright orb, (circular) craft in eastern sky, slow moving, at times still. Much brighter than any star, or planet, silent.

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-09-30
Where
Ames, IA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
Continued after viewing,
Geo
42.035, -93.620 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ames-ia-2011-3d5a88
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 27 documented reports from Ames, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 45 sightings in 2011.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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