CaseTeardrop2002
Des Moines, IA, USA
It looked like a teardrop and kept dropping and rising back and forth in a diagnol pattern. My friend was standing next to me and saw
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-03-11
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-des-moines-ia-2002-23cf28
In context
- Des Moines, IA has 100 sightings on file here.
- 2002 brought 25 reports from Iowa.
- The 2000s skewed 1.1% teardrop reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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