UFOMYST
CaseFormation2013

Des Moines, IA, USA

Orange Red Light Formations Over Des Moines, Iowa on August 24, 2013 at 10:00 p.m.

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (82 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-24
Where
Des Moines, IA, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
2 to 5 minutes
Geo
41.601, -93.609 · exact
Slug
formation-over-des-moines-ia-2013-c9df02
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • One of 100 documented reports from Des Moines, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 81 sightings in 2013.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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