UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2013

Des Moines, IA, USA

Triangular UFO seen by family of 6 just south of Des Moines on I35.

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (67 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-05-10
Where
Des Moines, IA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
3-5 minutes
Geo
41.601, -93.609 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-des-moines-ia-2013-37bf84
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Des Moines, IA has 100 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 81 reports from Iowa.
  • The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.

Report

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