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
Part of a wave
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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