UFOMYST
CaseLight2012

Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

Astonishing Sound and Changing Lights Seen North Of Cedar rapids, Iowa on December 20th 3:15 A.M. +

Report quality: Moderate69/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (99 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-12-20
Where
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
42.008, -91.644 · exact
Slug
light-over-cedar-rapids-ia-2012-f09697
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Cedar Rapids, IA reports filed in December 2012.

In context

  • Cedar Rapids, IA shows up 83 times across the archive.
  • 101 reports came from Iowa in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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