UFOMYST
CaseDisk1989

Des Moines, IA, USA

craft hovering over Des Moines River in Iowa

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (44 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1989-06-30
Where
Des Moines, IA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 min max
Geo
41.601, -93.609 · exact
Slug
disk-over-des-moines-ia-1989-372b7a
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Des Moines, IA shows up 100 times across the archive.
  • 5 reports came from Iowa in 1989.
  • In the 1980s, 14.3% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

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.