UFOMYST
CaseChevron2017

Clinton, IA, USA

Large faint dimly lit chevron shaped lights travelling quickly high in the sky. ((anonymous report))

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (79 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-11-01
Where
Clinton, IA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.844, -90.189 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-clinton-ia-2017-527f23
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

  • This is one of 7 reports logged in Clinton, IA.
  • This case is one of 45 Iowa reports filed in 2017.
  • Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 2010s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.

Report

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