Cedar Falls, IA, USA
Low-flying, brisk moving, silent, boomerang/triangular shaped set of lights in a number of approximately 10-20 total lights.
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: 22s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-03-30
- Where
- Cedar Falls, IA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 15-30 seconds
- Geo
- 42.528, -92.445 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-cedar-falls-ia-2014-c589e8
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.
- 2014 brought 69 reports from Iowa.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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