UFOMYST
CaseDisk1990

Ames, IA, USA

At a stadium concert, I and others saw a disk silently hover directly overhead, and then accelerate away at great speed.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (120 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1990-07-18
Where
Ames, IA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
42.035, -93.620 · exact
Slug
disk-over-ames-ia-1990-193d9f
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1989–1991

    The Belgian Triangle Wave

    Belgium (Eupen, Wallonia, Brussels corridor)

    The definitive black-triangle wave: silent, slow platforms with three corner lights, reported by gendarmes, air-traffic controllers, and thousands of citizens. On the night of March 30-31, 1990, Belgian F-16s scrambled…

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In context

  • Ames, IA has 27 sightings on file here.
  • 1990 brought 2 reports from Iowa.
  • The 1990s skewed 7.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Report

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