UFOMYST
CaseChevron2017

West Union, IA, USA

Myself my wife and a friend stepped outside. While out in front of the house no more than a few minutes later we noticed 8 orange glowi

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-02-13
Where
West Union, IA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
42.963, -91.808 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-west-union-ia-2017-146987
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

  • One of 1 documented reports from West Union, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 45 sightings in 2017.
  • Chevron sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.1%).

Report

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