CaseTriangle2001
Ames, IA, USA
Large triangular craft travels slowly at low altitude over Ames, IA
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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (67 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
- 3-4 minutes
- Geo
- 42.035, -93.620 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-ames-ia-2001-9873ac
Local cluster
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Ames, IA reports filed in May 2001.
In context
- Ames, IA shows up 27 times across the archive.
- 30 reports came from Iowa in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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