Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Substantial amount of 'satellites'. (("Starlink" satellites??))
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (35 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-03-04
- Where
- Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15-20 minutes
- Geo
- 42.008, -91.644 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-cedar-rapids-ia-2020-784ab7
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Cedar Rapids, IA reports filed in March 2020.
In context
- Cedar Rapids, IA shows up 83 times across the archive.
- 72 reports came from Iowa in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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