Altoona, IA, USA
Triangular shaped hovering craft with multi-colored flashing lights - seen for over 12 minutes.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 780s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (95 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-08-11
- Where
- Altoona, IA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 13 minutes
- Geo
- 41.644, -93.465 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-altoona-ia-2012-6f8133
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
- Altoona, IA has 8 sightings on file here.
- 2012 brought 101 reports from Iowa.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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