CaseLight2018
IA, USA
Communicating traveling orbs? ((anonymous report))
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (29 characters)
- Location could not be geocoded
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-09-18
- Where
- IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 4
- Geo
- —
- Slug
- light-over-ia-2018-c83c1f
Wave
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
- Iowa logged 33 sightings in 2018.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.