CaseLight2001
Ames, IA, USA
Four lights ascending, sitting stationary for awhile, then moving NE and disappearing
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (85 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-05-09
- Where
- Ames, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 42.035, -93.620 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ames-ia-2001-8668ca
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Ames, IA in May 2001 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Ames, IA has 27 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 30 reports from Iowa.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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