CaseLight2006
Manilla, IA, USA
Strange lights in Iowa skies
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-02-07
- Where
- Manilla, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 Seconds
- Geo
- 41.890, -95.232 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-manilla-ia-2006-113de8
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
- One of 4 documented reports from Manilla, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 27 sightings in 2006.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (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.