CaseCircle1968
Des Moines, IA, USA
a strange but non frigtening evet
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-07-20
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10-20 mins
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-des-moines-ia-1968-aab278
In context
- Des Moines, IA shows up 100 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Iowa in 1968.
- In the 1960s, 10.1% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
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.