UFOMYST
CaseFireball2005

Oskaloosa, IA, USA

While sitting in the backyard with a friend. What appeared to be a star, slowly started decending toward the Southeast horizon.It slowl

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: 5400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-07-02
Where
Oskaloosa, IA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
90 min
Geo
41.296, -92.644 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-oskaloosa-ia-2005-1ed786
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

  • Oskaloosa, IA shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 44 reports came from Iowa in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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