CaseSphere1971
Sioux City, IA, USA
My friend and I were on a country highway between Sioux City and Westfield, Iowa. We were coming up on a farmer's house and both of us
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1971-01-15
- Where
- Sioux City, IA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 42.500, -96.400 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-sioux-city-ia-1971-90ffec
In context
- Sioux City, IA shows up 35 times across the archive.
- 3 reports came from Iowa in 1971.
- In the 1970s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Report
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