Marion, IA, USA
Lights of blue, like electricity, red triangle in center! 1 blue/1 white
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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 (72 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-03-29
- Where
- Marion, IA, USA
- Shape
- Changing
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.034, -91.598 · exact
- Slug
- changing-over-marion-ia-2013-64ceea
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
- Marion, IA shows up 13 times across the archive.
- 81 reports came from Iowa in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 2.4% of reports described a changing — the all-time rate is 2.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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