CaseTriangle1981
Vinton, IA, USA
It was Black as night, triangle shaped, with three lights underneath one in each corne
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 19800s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (86 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1981-07-29
- Where
- Vinton, IA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5-6 hours
- Geo
- 42.169, -92.024 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-vinton-ia-1981-c780c6
In context
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Vinton, IA.
- This case is one of 2 Iowa reports filed in 1981.
- Triangle craft made up 12% of 1980s 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.