CaseTriangle2017

Dubuque, IA, USA

Dubuque, Ia.-Constant bright white lighted stationary triangle?shaped object in the western sky every night in Feb 2017 approx fr 6-8pm

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-02-26
Where
Dubuque, IA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
Nightly-2 hours
Geo
42.501, -90.665 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-dubuque-ia-2017-29bb85
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 26 reports logged in Dubuque, IA.
  • This case is one of 45 Iowa reports filed in 2017.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Report

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