CaseFlash2000
Ames, IA, USA
Birght flashing light in sky
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-09-24
- Where
- Ames, IA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 5 min
- Geo
- 42.035, -93.620 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-ames-ia-2000-725f4e
In context
- This is one of 27 reports logged in Ames, IA.
- This case is one of 29 Iowa reports filed in 2000.
- Flash craft made up 1.8% of 2000s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
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.