CaseRectangle2001
Ottumwa, IA, USA
We saw a square object at night, which had 2 blue & 2 red lights at corners, hovering in sky above us.
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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-10-10
- Where
- Ottumwa, IA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- 3-5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.020, -92.411 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-ottumwa-ia-2001-90a84e
In context
- Ottumwa, IA shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 30 reports came from Iowa in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 1.6% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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