CaseCircle1999
Iowa City, IA, USA
It was circular with three round lights on the bottom in the form of a triangle, hovering right over us before taking off into the sky
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-04-16
- Where
- Iowa City, IA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 3-5 Minutes ?
- Geo
- 41.661, -91.530 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-iowa-city-ia-1999-b54564
In context
- One of 32 documented reports from Iowa City, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 26 sightings in 1999.
- Circle sightings ran at 6.7% during the 1990s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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