CaseLight2000
Des Moines (metro area), IA, USA
Light in sky from which (twice) descended another smaller light. Moved AGAINST wind no matter what direction.
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: 2700s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (109 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-07-04
- Where
- Des Moines (metro area), IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-des-moines-metro-area-ia-2000-ae30e3
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Des Moines (metro area), IA.
- This case is one of 29 Iowa reports filed in 2000.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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