UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Marion, IA, USA

I think I witnessed a meteorite or meteor streaking through the sky to the north .the bright light went from looking like a bright star

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-18
Where
Marion, IA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
42.034, -91.598 · exact
Slug
circle-over-marion-ia-2016-fef50f
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

  • Marion, IA has 13 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 41 reports from Iowa.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Report

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