CaseSphere2020

Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

Objects flying in the same path with same speed and distance apart. ((Starlink satellites))

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-03-28
Where
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
42.008, -91.644 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-cedar-rapids-ia-2020-aa38d0
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Cedar Rapids, IA in March 2020 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Cedar Rapids, IA has 83 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 72 reports from Iowa.
  • The 2020s skewed 6.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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