CaseFireball2000
Des Moines (Southeast of), IA, USA
Red light in stop and go movement and dropping a storbbing object low in the sky then fading out.
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-03-25
- Where
- Des Moines (Southeast of), IA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-des-moines-southeast-of-ia-2000-751c9b
In context
- Des Moines (Southeast of), IA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2000 brought 29 reports from Iowa.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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