UFOMYST
CaseChevron2012

Council Bluffs, IA, USA

No sound, no trail, fast to appear slow to leave.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-15
Where
Council Bluffs, IA, USA
Shape
Chevron
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.262, -95.861 · exact
Slug
chevron-over-council-bluffs-ia-2012-97fe96
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Council Bluffs, IA has 37 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 101 reports from Iowa.
  • The 2010s skewed 1.1% chevron reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.1%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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