UFOMYST
CaseLight2020

Shellsburg, IA, USA

As we were looking for the comet I noticed a light that was moving erratically back forth up down a little to the east of the dipper th

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-25
Where
Shellsburg, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
Still happening
Geo
42.094, -91.869 · exact
Slug
light-over-shellsburg-ia-2020-45da54
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…

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In context

  • One of 2 documented reports from Shellsburg, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 72 sightings in 2020.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2020s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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