UFOMYST
CaseChevron2016

Windsor Heights, IA, USA

5 lights in chevron pattern, very low in the sky (maybe 250ft from ground).

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (75 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-01-05
Where
Windsor Heights, IA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
150 seconds
Geo
41.598, -93.708 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-windsor-heights-ia-2016-27f6de
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 3 documented reports from Windsor Heights, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 41 sightings in 2016.
  • Chevron sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.1%).

Report

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