CaseSphere2008
Smithland, IA, USA
bright blue sphere near Smithland, IA
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-02-19
- Where
- Smithland, IA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 42.229, -95.931 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-smithland-ia-2008-1fecd9
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In context
- One of 1 documented reports from Smithland, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
- Iowa logged 36 sightings in 2008.
- Sphere sightings ran at 5.9% during the 2000s (archive average: 6.5%).
Report
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