CaseCircle2020

Ft.atkinson, IA, USA

50 round lights in perfect row starting nw sky to nc sky moving slow. At aprox. 45 degees in sky lights faded out one at a time. Ligh

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-12-04
Where
Ft.atkinson, IA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
43.143, -91.933 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ft-atkinson-ia-2020-6e6f55
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…

In context

  • Ft.atkinson, IA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 72 reports from Iowa.
  • The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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.