CaseTriangle2011

Council Bluffs, IA, USA

Object over council bluffs ia

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (29 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-23
Where
Council Bluffs, IA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
2min
Geo
41.262, -95.861 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-council-bluffs-ia-2011-70bcf6
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

  • One of 37 documented reports from Council Bluffs, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 45 sightings in 2011.
  • Triangle sightings ran at 8.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 9%).

Report

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