UFOMYST
CaseLight2015

Centerville, IA, USA

My dog, and I were out at the lake, the moon was nearly full and I wanted to take pictures of it, so we were out there in the dark.

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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-08-04
Where
Centerville, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
4-5 minutes
Geo
42.093, -93.936 · exact
Slug
light-over-centerville-ia-2015-418f1d
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

  • Centerville, IA shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 47 reports came from Iowa in 2015.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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