CaseTriangle2013

Carter Lake, IA, USA

Transparent triangle object heading southeast.

Report quality: Moderate44/100

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: 4s (an atypical range)
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-11-10
Where
Carter Lake, IA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
4 seconds
Geo
41.291, -95.918 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-carter-lake-ia-2013-025a8d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Carter Lake, IA shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 81 reports came from Iowa in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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