Arlington, IA, USA
Bright orange light seen traveling NW to SE by 2 civilians in NE Iowa.
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: 105s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (70 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-11-30
- Where
- Arlington, IA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 1.5-2 minutes
- Geo
- 42.749, -91.671 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-arlington-ia-2013-40fe96
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
- Arlington, IA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 81 reports came from Iowa in 2013.
Report
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