Des moines, IA, USA
Was at stop light looked up seen hole in clouds. Snaped a few pixs. Later looked and seen something in first pix.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (113 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-11-04
- Where
- Des moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- Not sure
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-des-moines-ia-2017-167f7b
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Des moines, IA shows up 100 times across the archive.
- 45 reports came from Iowa in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
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