Des Moines, IA, USA
Siting looking at the stars was moving fast and steady rusty dark look no lights but had a glow and was heading west it came out of sig
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: 7s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-25
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 7 sec
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-des-moines-ia-2011-f44a40
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- One of 100 documented reports from Des Moines, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 45 sightings in 2011.
- Egg sightings ran at 0.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 0.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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