CaseLight2011

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
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…

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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