Fairfield, IA, USA
I am a night sky watcher and I have seen a lot of military maneuvers and a few strange things in this area, but what I saw this evening
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-07-21
- Where
- Fairfield, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 01:00
- Geo
- 41.009, -91.963 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-fairfield-ia-2011-03d149
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 14 reports logged in Fairfield, 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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