Carter Lake, IA, USA
One brilliantly illuminating ball of light that float over our heads and shorty afterwards, vanished before our eyes.
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 (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-07-16
- Where
- Carter Lake, IA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.291, -95.918 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-carter-lake-ia-2010-66dd66
Part of a wave
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
- Carter Lake, IA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 50 reports came from Iowa in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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