CaseLight2001
Des Moines, IA, USA
Red ball of light plummits towards ground and dissapears.
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2001-10-14
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 Seconds
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-des-moines-ia-2001-61cf3e
In context
- Des Moines, IA has 100 sightings on file here.
- 2001 brought 30 reports from Iowa.
- The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
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.