CaseLight2000
Des Moines, IA, USA
Red Light in the Southern Sky on the Fourth of July
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2000-07-04
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-des-moines-ia-2000-d3bd53
In context
- This is one of 100 reports logged in Des Moines, IA.
- This case is one of 29 Iowa reports filed in 2000.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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