CaseLight2021

Sioux City, IA, USA

Late at night, I saw a very large red light that traveled quickly across the sky and disappeared.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (97 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2021-01-22
Where
Sioux City, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.500, -96.400 · exact
Slug
light-over-sioux-city-ia-2021-6de8c4
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

  • Sioux City, IA shows up 35 times across the archive.
  • 22 reports came from Iowa in 2021.
  • In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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