CaseSphere1999
Iowa City, IA, USA
satellite dots in polar orbit but one grew very bright as it turned into line with first
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (88 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-11-30
- Where
- Iowa City, IA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 41.661, -91.530 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-iowa-city-ia-1999-930f2e
In context
- Iowa City, IA shows up 32 times across the archive.
- 26 reports came from Iowa in 1999.
- In the 1990s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.