Marion, IA, USA
I was outside smoking a cigarette. I looked over to the field across the street. I saw the first object and thought maybe it's jus
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (130 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-10-25
- Where
- Marion, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10-15 Minutes
- Geo
- 42.034, -91.598 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-marion-ia-2007-bc344c
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
- This is one of 13 reports logged in Marion, IA.
- This case is one of 51 Iowa reports filed in 2007.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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