UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2013

Hiawatha/Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

Multi-colored triangle, seen on multiple occasions and by multiple witnesses, this is not isolated to one day.

Report quality: Moderate47/100

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: 18000s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (110 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-05-03
Where
Hiawatha/Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 hours
Geo
42.036, -91.682 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-hiawatha-cedar-rapids-ia-2013-327876
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

  • This is one of 1 reports logged in Hiawatha/Cedar Rapids, IA.
  • This case is one of 81 Iowa reports filed in 2013.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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