UFOMYST
CaseSphere2019

Bondurant, IA, USA

Southeast sky of Altoona Iowa. Was a bright large light..disappeared in a quick instance

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (88 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-08-03
Where
Bondurant, IA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15
Geo
41.701, -93.462 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-bondurant-ia-2019-0543b9
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

  • Bondurant, IA shows up 4 times across the archive.
  • 43 reports came from Iowa in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.