CaseCircle1999
Council Bluffs, IA, USA
Looking at Venus with scope and spotted a black sphere moving through the field of view very quickly.
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-06-17
- Where
- Council Bluffs, IA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 41.262, -95.861 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-council-bluffs-ia-1999-94c485
In context
- This is one of 37 reports logged in Council Bluffs, IA.
- This case is one of 26 Iowa reports filed in 1999.
- Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% 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.