CaseOther1998
Des Moines, IA, USA
It made no sound, but you could see the rear was lit up like a jet and it was as if it was looking for something.
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: 420s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-07-20
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 7 minutes
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-des-moines-ia-1998-995108
In context
- This is one of 100 reports logged in Des Moines, IA.
- This case is one of 18 Iowa reports filed in 1998.
- Other craft made up 8% of 1990s reports, vs 6.9% 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.