As reported

Triangle over Vinton, IA

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The report, as filed

It was Black as night, triangle shaped, with three lights underneath one in each corne

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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December 7, 2022 · 10:06 PM · LIGHT

Vinton, IA

My wife and I were sitting in the car. When I looked out my window to the South. I made an animation of what I saw. there was a very bright and vivid red light and blue light just hovering. They stayed not moving for about 1-2 minutes. Then the blue light disappeared and moments later it appeared on the other side of the red light. still the red light had not moved was just hovering. about a minute later the blue light vanished again and appeared back on the other side of the red light again where it had started. Then both lights started moving from West to East. Then again, they stopped and hovered and the blue light again switched side's twice but when it came back the second time it was yellow not blue the red light remained red The whole time. They were both so very bright and vivid the whole time. At this point my wife had grabbed my phone and I started videoing the object. In the video you can see it pass between then moon and mars. The objects looked much closer with my eyes then it appears in the video! There was never any sound and as you can see on the video the night was perfectly clear and very quiet. There is no flashing light like you would see on a plane or helicopter. and the lights just seemed so strangely bright and vivid! In the video you can see it is moving rather fast when passing between the moon and mars. In the year and a half, we have lived here I have seen airplanes, Helicopters, the International Space Station, And even Starlink "which is an AMAZING SIGHT" But I have never seen anything like this.

August 4, 2018 · 7:30 AM

Vinton, IA

I was video taping a video I had taken of the birds in my yard. The original recording was on a different phone that I uploaded to my laptop. Due to hacking of my computer I was unable to upload this video to my new phone so I recorded the original recording on a new phone. When I viewed the video an image appeared in the video. The image looks alien and is a face that is not human looking. The image has a mouth that looks human. The eyes do not. I have tried to find out how this image showed up. I used a phone to record this video from my laptop and was in my home. Again the video I was recording was a video I had taken outside of the birds and was in my yard. I had uploaded it to my laptop. This video was taken from a different phone so I wanted to record it on my phone. I have tested what I did when recording and I am unable to reproduce this image. I tried to copy and paste the image here but was unable to. I have had other people view this ! video and many believe it is alien form. Some say it could be a spirit. I can email this image to be viewed. Thank you.

September 26, 2012 · 8:00 PM · CIRCLE