Indianola, IA, USA
Two orange glowing triangular planes started flying towards my house. Flew very low and slow. Could only hear a soft purr of an engine.
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
- 2020-03-01
- Where
- Indianola, IA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 4 minutes
- Geo
- 41.358, -93.557 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-indianola-ia-2020-3102bf
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
- One of 7 documented reports from Indianola, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 72 sightings in 2020.
- Triangle sightings ran at 6.2% during the 2020s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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