UFOMYST
CaseSphere2008

Des Moines, IA, USA

My brother and my mom were with me as we saw a ball of light moving Northwest through the sky. It only lasted about 40 seconds.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2008-08-01
Where
Des Moines, IA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
30 seconds
Geo
41.601, -93.609 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-des-moines-ia-2008-64dc36
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In context

  • One of 100 documented reports from Des Moines, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 36 sightings in 2008.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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