UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2004

Manilla, IA, USA

I saw 6 bright gold lights and then a flash of white light.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-10
Where
Manilla, IA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
20 to 30 seconds
Geo
41.890, -95.232 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-manilla-ia-2004-2e948e
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

  • One of 4 documented reports from Manilla, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 37 sightings in 2004.

Report

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