CaseTeardrop1999
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
I was driving home after work when I was a teardrop silvery and shiny object, (and it was obvious that it was chrome colored) passed ac
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: 40s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-10-28
- Where
- Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 40 sec
- Geo
- 42.008, -91.644 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-cedar-rapids-ia-1999-d3ed36
In context
- Cedar Rapids, IA has 83 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 26 reports from Iowa.
- The 1990s skewed 0.8% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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