Adel, IA, USA
Gold light resembling a shooting star darts across Eastern sky, instantly veers upwards, then disappears. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (105 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-03-07
- Where
- Adel, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 1 second
- Geo
- 41.614, -94.017 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-adel-ia-2017-936802
Part of a wave
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
- This is one of 4 reports logged in Adel, IA.
- This case is one of 45 Iowa reports filed in 2017.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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