CaseOval2003
Preston, IA, USA
Blue oval shaped transparent light w/o an apparent source with red lights flashing around it.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (93 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-12-26
- Where
- Preston, IA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 15 Minutes
- Geo
- 42.050, -90.414 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-preston-ia-2003-2646d5
In context
- Preston, IA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 33 reports came from Iowa in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
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.