UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2017

Manchester, IA, USA

Triangle that matched the color of the night sky. One red light at the face of the triangle and two white lights in the back.

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 (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-04-04
Where
Manchester, IA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
10 minutes?
Geo
42.484, -91.455 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-manchester-ia-2017-f418b2
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • This is one of 2 reports logged in Manchester, 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

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.