CaseSphere1989
Waterloo, IA, USA
Swift moving metallic orb, traveling East to West.
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (50 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1989-07-25
- Where
- Waterloo, IA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- seconds
- Geo
- 42.493, -92.343 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-waterloo-ia-1989-2587ba
Wave
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 35 documented reports from Waterloo, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 5 sightings in 1989.
- Sphere sightings ran at 8.1% during the 1980s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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