Muscatine, IA, USA
At 20:00 hours I observed a large triangular shaped craft on the SW side of town, heading NE.
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-04-18
- Where
- Muscatine, IA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 41.424, -91.043 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-muscatine-ia-2016-e150ff
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
- Muscatine, IA shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 41 reports came from Iowa in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 3.5% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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