CaseTriangle2001
Ames, IA, USA
Credible witnesses, using binoculars, checking details of huge, nearby object.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-17
- Where
- Ames, IA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 Minutes
- Geo
- 42.035, -93.620 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-ames-ia-2001-7644a7
Local cluster
Local cluster
May 2001 was a busy month for Ames, IA: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 27 reports logged in Ames, IA.
- This case is one of 30 Iowa reports filed in 2001.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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