CaseLight2003
Des Moines, WA, USA
Heard a sound like a moving object through the air, starting and stopping.
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-07-17
- Where
- Des Moines, WA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 47.402, -122.324 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-des-moines-wa-2003-d977ea
In context
- Des Moines, WA has 20 sightings on file here.
- 2003 brought 245 reports from Washington.
- 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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