UFOMYST
CaseDisk2005

Des Moines, IA, USA

Two objects leading a third, or was the two objects being followed ?

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (68 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-03-11
Where
Des Moines, IA, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
3 minutes (maybe)
Geo
41.601, -93.609 · exact
Slug
disk-over-des-moines-ia-2005-e416c0
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Des Moines, IA shows up 100 times across the archive.
  • 44 reports came from Iowa in 2005.
  • In the 2000s, 6.5% 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.