CaseFormation1993
Ottumwa, IA, USA
1993 Evening Ufo sighting over Ottumwa, Iowa. Singular object splits in two, lights fly across sky.
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: 9s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1993-12-19
- Where
- Ottumwa, IA, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 8-10 seconds
- Geo
- 41.020, -92.411 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-ottumwa-ia-1993-df1c97
In context
- Ottumwa, IA shows up 12 times across the archive.
- 2 reports came from Iowa in 1993.
- In the 1990s, 2.7% of reports described a formation — the all-time rate is 3.3%.
Report
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