CaseDisk1974

Council Bluffs, IA, USA

Name: UFO sighting — Council Bluffs, IA, USA
Start: 1974-07-07
Location: Council Bluffs, IA, USA

We saw a red light at high altitude zig zag across sky from horizon to horizon, then again hovering slowly over Mo. river area, then cl

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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No parseable duration on file
Detailed witness text (135 characters)
Location geocoded exactly
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1974-07-07
Where: Council Bluffs, IA, USA
Shape: Disk
Duration: 2:00 HRS.
Geo: 41.262, -95.861 · exact
Slug: disk-over-council-bluffs-ia-1974-5a26c4

In context

Council Bluffs, IA shows up 37 times across the archive.
2 reports came from Iowa in 1974.
In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

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