UFOMYST
CaseDisk2021

Iowa City, IA, USA

Orange saucer shaped. Looked as if it was lit from bottom. It was really moving, but appeared to hover and move up slightly. Then it go

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-09-11
Where
Iowa City, IA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.661, -91.530 · exact
Slug
disk-over-iowa-city-ia-2021-c6b2fb
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

  • Iowa City, IA has 32 sightings on file here.
  • 2021 brought 22 reports from Iowa.
  • The 2020s skewed 3.8% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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