CaseTriangle2013
Waterloo, IA, USA
Triangular aircraft with yellow and red lights.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (47 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-24
- Where
- Waterloo, IA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 1 minutes
- Geo
- 42.493, -92.343 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-waterloo-ia-2013-12f77d
Wave
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
- This is one of 35 reports logged in Waterloo, IA.
- This case is one of 81 Iowa reports filed in 2013.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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