UFOMYST
CaseCircle2014

Dubuque, IA, USA

Round object moving slowly across sky and goes opposite direction in a second. ((NUFORC Note: Model airplane?? PD))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (78 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-04-03
Where
Dubuque, IA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
42.501, -90.665 · exact
Slug
circle-over-dubuque-ia-2014-119c8e
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…

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In context

  • One of 26 documented reports from Dubuque, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 69 sightings in 2014.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

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