CaseOther1999
Des Moines, IA, USA
Looked like shooting star, Except they had no tail, went from south horizion to north horizion at a very high rate of speed
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 (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-06-05
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 4 sec
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-des-moines-ia-1999-8e8ff3
In context
- Des Moines, IA shows up 100 times across the archive.
- 26 reports came from Iowa in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 8% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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