UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2020

Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

At 9:00 pm on Thursday October 1st, I was taking out my garbage when I saw a aircraft slowly coming towards my home, west to east, goin

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-10-01
Where
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
42.008, -91.644 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-cedar-rapids-ia-2020-d73f6b
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 83 reports logged in Cedar Rapids, IA.
  • This case is one of 72 Iowa reports filed in 2020.
  • Triangle craft made up 6.2% of 2020s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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