CaseOval2002
Des Moines, IA, USA
ufo hovering near interstste.
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 (29 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-03-06
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-des-moines-ia-2002-7a701c
In context
- Des Moines, IA shows up 100 times across the archive.
- 25 reports came from Iowa in 2002.
- In the 2000s, 4.7% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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