CaseLight2000

Des Moines, IA, USA

It was a round star object that went straight then zig zagged.

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (62 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2000-09-14
Where
Des Moines, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
:30 seconds
Geo
41.601, -93.609 · exact
Slug
light-over-des-moines-ia-2000-6db868

In context

  • One of 100 documented reports from Des Moines, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 29 sightings in 2000.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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