UFOMYST
CaseRectangle2004

Waterloo, IA, USA

Strange triangle like plane that moved really really fast!

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (58 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-06-28
Where
Waterloo, IA, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
ten minutes
Geo
42.493, -92.343 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-waterloo-ia-2004-80d286
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

  • One of 35 documented reports from Waterloo, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 37 sightings in 2004.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.6% during the 2000s (archive average: 1.7%).

Report

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