CaseLight2015

North Liberty, IA, USA

Bright flying object. no sound. bright flash.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (45 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-04-05
Where
North Liberty, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
41.749, -91.598 · exact
Slug
light-over-north-liberty-ia-2015-b99a37
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

  • North Liberty, IA has 6 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 47 reports from Iowa.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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