UFOMYST
CaseLight2019

Des Moines, IA, USA

Light disk object bigger than plane enters atmosphere.

Report quality: Moderate42/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Brief witness text (54 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2019-11-19
Where
Des Moines, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
17:27
Geo
41.601, -93.609 · exact
Slug
light-over-des-moines-ia-2019-c3fb70
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 100 reports logged in Des Moines, IA.
  • This case is one of 43 Iowa reports filed in 2019.
  • Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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