CaseCircle1980
Wapello, IA, USA
Craft sucking water from pond.
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 (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1980-06-15
- Where
- Wapello, IA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10min.
- Geo
- 41.181, -91.185 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-wapello-ia-1980-f50aaa
In context
- Wapello, IA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Iowa in 1980.
- In the 1980s, 8.2% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Report
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