CaseOval1939
Keokuk, IA, USA
A mother in Keokuk, Iowa reported an oval-shaped object above railroad tracks, observed for about 10 minutes in July 1939.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1939-07-07
- Where
- Keokuk, IA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 40.397, -91.385 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-keokuk-ia-1939-fe0b4e
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In context
- This is one of 10 reports logged in Keokuk, IA.
- This case is one of 1 Iowa reports filed in 1939.
- Oval craft made up 16.7% of 1930s reports, vs 4.3% across the whole archive.
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