Sheldon, IA, USA
IOWA MUFONREPORT: Director, Beverly Trout, interviewed witness by phone re a sighting witness had reported to NUFORC.
Report quality: Moderate57/100
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)
- Moderate witness text (117 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-07-24
- Where
- Sheldon, IA, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 43.181, -95.856 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-sheldon-ia-2005-a56b02
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
- This is one of 3 reports logged in Sheldon, IA.
- This case is one of 44 Iowa reports filed in 2005.
- Triangle craft made up 10.1% of 2000s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
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.