CaseCircle2000
West Des Moines, IA, USA
Red Light Hovering over West Des Moines Iowa
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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- Duration parsed: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (44 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-07-04
- Where
- West Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Geo
- 41.577, -93.711 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-west-des-moines-ia-2000-19f90d
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In context
- West Des Moines, IA shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 29 reports came from Iowa in 2000.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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