UFOMYST
CaseOther2005

Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

Object heading direct west moving about 3 times the speed of a plane, with one light flashing, jumping from position to position.

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 (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-06-02
Where
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
42.008, -91.644 · exact
Slug
other-over-cedar-rapids-ia-2005-db6c6a
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

  • This is one of 83 reports logged in Cedar Rapids, IA.
  • This case is one of 44 Iowa reports filed in 2005.
  • Other craft made up 7.6% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Report

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