Colfax, IA, USA
I had just left the Colfax exit headed W when a flash of light with a bright white epicenter to the SE. ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-09-25
- Where
- Colfax, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 second intervals
- Geo
- 41.678, -93.245 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-colfax-ia-2017-da51bb
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
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In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Colfax, 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.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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