Marshalltown, IA, USA
October 2, 2008 just after 8 p.m. Marshalltown, Iowa, saw a black triangular shaped object, with round green lights in V pattern
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-10-02
- Where
- Marshalltown, IA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 4-5 seconds
- Geo
- 42.049, -92.908 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-marshalltown-ia-2008-7ef6ae
Part of a wave
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
- Marshalltown, IA shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 36 reports came from Iowa in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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