UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2011

Pella, IA, USA

While in hot tub,looking east saw object,bar or cigar shaped, traveling north to south it veered off to south east speed like falling

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-12-19
Where
Pella, IA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
2-4 sec
Geo
41.408, -92.916 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-pella-ia-2011-606059
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 4 documented reports from Pella, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 45 sightings in 2011.

Report

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