Knoxville, IA, USA
3 medium bright lights in a triangular shape. Large circular light in center lit up and object moved, seemingly instantaneously to the
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-02-12
- Where
- Knoxville, IA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.321, -93.109 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-knoxville-ia-2013-77730d
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
- Knoxville, IA has 4 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 81 reports from Iowa.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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