Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Strange Lights Across Cedar Rapids, Iowa Sky on June 2, 2012 @ around 9:15 pm CST
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 270s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-06-02
- Where
- Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 4-5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.008, -91.644 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-cedar-rapids-ia-2012-a2a273
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
- One of 83 documented reports from Cedar Rapids, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 101 sightings in 2012.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Report
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