UFOMYST
CaseLight2012

Des Moines, IA, USA

Unusual flight pattern of a squadron of aircraft that defy gravity and G-force manuverability.

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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (94 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-12-18
Where
Des Moines, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
6 minutes
Geo
41.601, -93.609 · exact
Slug
light-over-des-moines-ia-2012-c21a9c
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Des Moines, IA logged 3 reports in the single month of December 2012.

In context

  • One of 100 documented reports from Des Moines, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 101 sightings in 2012.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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