UFOMYST
CaseOval2016

Centerville, IA, USA

Orange oval light moving north then south

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (41 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-08
Where
Centerville, IA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
42.093, -93.936 · exact
Slug
oval-over-centerville-ia-2016-2fcc66
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

  • Centerville, IA shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 41 reports came from Iowa in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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