UFOMYST
CaseTriangle1977

Des Moines, IA, USA

never made a sound

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (18 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1977-07-12
Where
Des Moines, IA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 min
Geo
41.601, -93.609 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-des-moines-ia-1977-a062bf
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1977–1978

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In context

  • This is one of 100 reports logged in Des Moines, IA.
  • This case is one of 1 Iowa reports filed in 1977.
  • Triangle craft made up 7.9% of 1970s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.