Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
White wingless silent cylinder moved at constant speed without contrail along an apparent straight flight path.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-12-25
- Where
- Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.008, -91.644 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-cedar-rapids-ia-2014-90e2a5
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 69 sightings in 2014.
- Cylinder sightings ran at 1.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.6%).
Report
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