UFOMYST
CaseLight2016

West Des Moines, IA, USA

Large ball of light falling to earth at a incrediable speed. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD))

Report quality: Low31/100

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: 3s (an atypical range)
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-12-13
Where
West Des Moines, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
3 seconds
Geo
41.577, -93.711 · exact
Slug
light-over-west-des-moines-ia-2016-9aa724
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

  • West Des Moines, IA has 18 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 41 reports from Iowa.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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