CaseLight2003
Ryan, IA, USA
Flying ball of light too large to be anything explainable, also too fast and flew in zig zag formation and appeard and dissapeard insky
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-08-31
- Where
- Ryan, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- approx. 4 seconds
- Geo
- 42.351, -91.482 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ryan-ia-2003-37b84a
In context
- This is one of 1 reports logged in Ryan, IA.
- This case is one of 33 Iowa reports filed in 2003.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.