UFOMYST
CaseLight2006

Ottumwa, IA, USA

Unexplained object floating across the night sky

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (48 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2006-07-15
Where
Ottumwa, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 min
Geo
41.020, -92.411 · exact
Slug
light-over-ottumwa-ia-2006-71fb9e
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 12 reports logged in Ottumwa, IA.
  • This case is one of 27 Iowa reports filed in 2006.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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