CaseLight2011

Dubuque, IA, USA

Single bright, moving winking light and … ((NUFORC Note: Possible tumbling rocket/booster?? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2011-07-30
Where
Dubuque, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
about 10 mins?
Geo
42.501, -90.665 · exact
Slug
light-over-dubuque-ia-2011-f736a6
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

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In context

  • This is one of 26 reports logged in Dubuque, IA.
  • This case is one of 45 Iowa reports filed in 2011.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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