UFOMYST
CaseCigar2017

Des Moines, IA, USA

No wings, flew fast, no noise, not on flight maps. White in color, sparkled in the morning sun and then vanished out of sight.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (126 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-11-16
Where
Des Moines, IA, USA
Shape
Cigar
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
41.601, -93.609 · exact
Slug
cigar-over-des-moines-ia-2017-19cf60
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…

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In context

  • This is one of 100 reports logged in Des Moines, IA.
  • This case is one of 45 Iowa reports filed in 2017.
  • Cigar craft made up 1.9% of 2010s reports, vs 2.5% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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