CaseSphere1999
Newton, IA, USA
Large light in southwest sky
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 (28 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1999-07-06
- Where
- Newton, IA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- less than minute
- Geo
- 41.700, -93.048 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-newton-ia-1999-1ec4d8
In context
- Newton, IA has 9 sightings on file here.
- 1999 brought 26 reports from Iowa.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.