CaseSphere2002
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
spherical solid object bright white hovering high up in clear sky then moving slowly out of sight
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-03-27
- Where
- Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 42.008, -91.644 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-cedar-rapids-ia-2002-ef2dce
In context
- Cedar Rapids, IA has 83 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 25 reports from Iowa.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.