Dubuque, IA, USA
If you ever watched animal planet and seen the deep sea jellyfish glowing in the dark it was like that but shaped like big football.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-11-19
- Where
- Dubuque, IA, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 42.501, -90.665 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-dubuque-ia-2014-e05fd3
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
- Dubuque, IA shows up 26 times across the archive.
- 69 reports came from Iowa in 2014.
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.