CaseSphere2001
Atlantic, IA, USA
A glowing blue ball quickly passed in and out of low hazy clouds right above me.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-10-31
- Where
- Atlantic, IA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1-1.5 seconds
- Geo
- 41.404, -95.014 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-atlantic-ia-2001-29fe76
In context
- Atlantic, IA shows up 3 times across the archive.
- 30 reports came from Iowa in 2001.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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