CaseFlash1999
Council Bluffs, IA, USA
While driving home from school in Council Bluffs down Interstate 80 I observed a bright flash that streaked across the sky a great dist
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-09-17
- Where
- Council Bluffs, IA, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 41.262, -95.861 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-council-bluffs-ia-1999-fd187b
In context
- One of 37 documented reports from Council Bluffs, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 26 sightings in 1999.
- Flash sightings ran at 1.3% during the 1990s (archive average: 1.7%).
Report
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