UFOMYST
CaseCylinder1991

Council Bluffs, IA, USA

Daytime sighting of a black stationary tube that looked like UFO from Star Trek Movie with the whales.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (102 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1991-08-31
Where
Council Bluffs, IA, USA
Shape
Cylinder
Duration
5 min
Geo
41.262, -95.861 · exact
Slug
cylinder-over-council-bluffs-ia-1991-d994d1
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 37 documented reports from Council Bluffs, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 1 sightings in 1991.
  • Cylinder sightings ran at 1.4% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.6%).

Report

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