CaseDisk1996
Des Moines, IA, USA
my friend and i saw a blurry white shape, 'bobbing' far off in a blue sky. we got the binoculars and with those saw that it was a class
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1996-09-14
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-des-moines-ia-1996-72ca1a
In context
- This is one of 100 reports logged in Des Moines, IA.
- This case is one of 4 Iowa reports filed in 1996.
- Disk craft made up 7.1% of 1990s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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