UFOMYST
CaseOval1989

Waterloo, IA, USA

Bright light over my naborhood that made no noise at all but wasnt from here,woke me from a dead sleep.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (103 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-09-12
Where
Waterloo, IA, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
?????????
Geo
42.493, -92.343 · exact
Slug
oval-over-waterloo-ia-1989-9577b7
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

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In context

  • Waterloo, IA shows up 35 times across the archive.
  • 5 reports came from Iowa in 1989.
  • In the 1980s, 5.2% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

Report

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