UFOMYST
CaseLight2010

Waukee, IA, USA

Bright Zig-Zagging Light over Des Moines, 6/24/10

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (49 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-06-24
Where
Waukee, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
120seconds
Geo
41.612, -93.885 · exact
Slug
light-over-waukee-ia-2010-13c8df
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Waukee, IA shows up 7 times across the archive.
  • 50 reports came from Iowa in 2010.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

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.