CaseTriangle2005

Council Bluffs, IA, USA

Traveling from Omaha to Des moines I witnessed a triangle object near interstate

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (80 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-12-18
Where
Council Bluffs, IA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3:00 Mins
Geo
41.262, -95.861 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-council-bluffs-ia-2005-7004aa
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…

In context

  • This is one of 37 reports logged in Council Bluffs, IA.
  • This case is one of 44 Iowa reports filed in 2005.
  • Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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