UFOMYST
CaseTeardrop2022

Des Moines, USA

Des Moines, WA 3 flying objects (2 disappeared; 1 fell to ground)

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2022-02-27
Where
Des Moines, USA
Shape
Teardrop
Duration
90 seconds
Geo
41.601, -93.609 · exact
Slug
teardrop-over-des-moines-2022-0d73fd
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Des Moines, USA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2022 brought 33 reports from USA.
  • The 2020s skewed 0.6% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.

Report

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