CaseTriangle1986
Decatur, IA, USA
It continued on straight path about 100' in air for about 8 seconds. then went straight up for about 2 seconds and out of sight.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1986-10-26
- Where
- Decatur, IA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 10 seconds
- Geo
- 40.742, -93.834 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-decatur-ia-1986-c9a301
In context
- Decatur, IA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1986 brought 4 reports from Iowa.
- The 1980s skewed 12% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.