Des Moines, IA, USA
Driving at night and saw a large rectangular "float"" in the sky moving slowly noiseless. . Bright lights clearly defined the ufo. 3min
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-11-28
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-des-moines-ia-2021-1e9282
Part of a wave
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…
In context
- Des Moines, IA shows up 100 times across the archive.
- 22 reports came from Iowa in 2021.
- In the 2020s, 1.8% of reports described a rectangle — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Report
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