UFOMYST
CaseCircle2017

Des Moines, IA, USA

Bright red object spotted above north side of Des Moines

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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 (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2017-04-13
Where
Des Moines, IA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
41.601, -93.609 · exact
Slug
circle-over-des-moines-ia-2017-075f7f
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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Local cluster

Local cluster

Des Moines, IA logged 3 reports in the single month of April 2017.

In context

  • One of 100 documented reports from Des Moines, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 45 sightings in 2017.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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