CaseLight1999
Des Moines, IA, USA
What looked like a star was moving to the north for a duration of 15 seconds before being blocked out by some high clouds.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-07-07
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-des-moines-ia-1999-6cc1fc
In context
- One of 100 documented reports from Des Moines, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 26 sightings in 1999.
- Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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