UFOMYST
CaseLight1989

Palo, IA, USA

A bright light floated slowly ( and silently) over the barn.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-05-01
Where
Palo, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 minute
Geo
42.066, -91.795 · exact
Slug
light-over-palo-ia-1989-d44a06
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

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In context

  • Palo, IA shows up 2 times across the archive.
  • 5 reports came from Iowa in 1989.
  • In the 1980s, 11% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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