CaseChevron2019

Exline, IA, USA

Saw 3 blinking white lights in sky, looked closer and saw a gray colored chevron shape hovering for about 10 to 15 seconds and then dis

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 (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-06-28
Where
Exline, IA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
40.649, -92.840 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-exline-ia-2019-80accc
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

  • Exline, IA shows up 1 times across the archive.
  • 43 reports came from Iowa in 2019.
  • In the 2010s, 1.1% of reports described a chevron — the all-time rate is 1.1%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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