CaseLight1999
Des Moines (east of, 152 mm on I-80), IA, USA
3 YELLOW LIGHTS SIMILAR TO STARS IN SKY, APPEARED TO BE IN A TYPE OF DOG FIGHT. THEY WOULD COME TOGETHER AND THEN FLY APPART.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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- Duration parsed: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-05-19
- Where
- Des Moines (east of, 152 mm on I-80), IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-des-moines-east-of-152-mm-on-i-80-ia-1999-ae0d4c
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In context
- Des Moines (east of, 152 mm on I-80), IA has 1 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 26 reports from Iowa.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
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