CaseFormation2007

Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

Six to eight round neon green objects flying north to south in a v shaped formation at low speed and slightly higher than tree height

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-02-16
Where
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
42.008, -91.644 · exact
Slug
formation-over-cedar-rapids-ia-2007-927ce4
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…

In context

  • This is one of 83 reports logged in Cedar Rapids, IA.
  • This case is one of 51 Iowa reports filed in 2007.
  • Formation craft made up 3.1% of 2000s reports, vs 3.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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