CaseTriangle2013

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
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

  • 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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