CaseFireball2001
Des Moines, IA, USA
slow moving green fireball
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: 8s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (26 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-06-23
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 - 10 seconds
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-des-moines-ia-2001-fadde5
In context
- One of 100 documented reports from Des Moines, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 30 sightings in 2001.
- Fireball sightings ran at 5.5% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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