Cedar Falls, IA, USA
Last Wednesday or Thursday, about 9 PM, I looked out my living room window and saw a ball of light streak across the sky. It was fairly
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-09-05
- Where
- Cedar Falls, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 2 - 3 seconds
- Geo
- 42.528, -92.445 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-cedar-falls-ia-2007-5ef212
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
- Cedar Falls, IA has 20 sightings on file here.
- 2007 brought 51 reports from Iowa.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
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