CaseDisk1972
Onawa, IA, USA
Saucer shaped object with square red lights moves slowly over small Iowa town.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1972-09-01
- Where
- Onawa, IA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 3 min
- Geo
- 42.027, -96.097 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-onawa-ia-1972-239847
In context
- Onawa, IA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 1 reports came from Iowa in 1972.
- In the 1970s, 22.6% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.