CaseCircle2001
Des Moines, IA, USA
white light changing directions in the sky.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (43 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-08-01
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-des-moines-ia-2001-034ee6
In context
- Des Moines, IA shows up 100 times across the archive.
- 30 reports came from Iowa in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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