CaseSphere2003
Des Moines, IA, USA
3 spheres of multi-colors circled and shot straight up out of site.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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
- Moderate witness text (67 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2003-05-30
- Where
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 mins
- Geo
- 41.601, -93.609 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-des-moines-ia-2003-457822
In context
- Des Moines, IA shows up 100 times across the archive.
- 33 reports came from Iowa in 2003.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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