UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2012

Council Bluffs, IA, USA

Triangle Ufo, with 3 lights on edges and 2 in center over council bluffs. Near the community college.

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-07-19
Where
Council Bluffs, IA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3 minutes
Geo
41.262, -95.861 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-council-bluffs-ia-2012-8494c0
Wave

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  • 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…

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In context

  • Council Bluffs, IA shows up 37 times across the archive.
  • 101 reports came from Iowa in 2012.
  • 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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