CaseChevron2005
Boone, IA, USA
Slow moving boomerang moves across a Central Iowa town.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-01
- Where
- Boone, IA, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 2-3 min.
- Geo
- 42.060, -93.880 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-boone-ia-2005-cb6ef7
Wave
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…
In context
- Boone, IA has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 44 reports from Iowa.
- The 2000s skewed 1.2% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.