CaseOther1968
Fairfield, IA, USA
A witness in Fairfield, Iowa reported a huge object, 100 to 150 feet across and resembling a chrome-colored deflated balloon, moving slowly overhead in June 1968 for about five minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (185 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-06-20
- Where
- Fairfield, IA, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 41.009, -91.963 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-fairfield-ia-1968-f92e3e
In context
- Fairfield, IA has 14 sightings on file here.
- 1968 brought 5 reports from Iowa.
- The 1960s skewed 6.8% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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