{"id":2604,"date":"2025-03-10T10:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/central-iowa-lights-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T10:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T10:35:09","slug":"central-iowa-lights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/central-iowa-lights-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Central iowa lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Central Iowa Lights Report<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Date &amp; Time:<\/strong> February 20, 2025, at 8:00 PM<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Central Iowa, between Wellsburg and Eldora  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling a bit frustrated that I haven&#8217;t managed to capture any photos yet, but tonight was a real eye-opener. In the western sky, slightly to the right of what I think might be Venus or Jupiter (I can&#8217;t be certain), I&#8217;ve been observing lights arranged in a pattern, typically three or four, lasting about two minutes around 8 PM. <\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I counted five lights and was determined to grab a picture, so I pulled over and turned off my headlights. To my surprise, I saw twelve lights lined up! There may have been more, but they began to blink out as I tried to snap a photo. I was so shaken that the picture didn&#8217;t turn out well at all. <\/p>\n<p>This has been occurring nightly since the fall, and I&#8217;ll keep trying to get photos to share here. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nCentral Iowa Lights Report Date &amp; Time: February 20, 2025, at 8:00 PM Location: Central Iowa, between Wellsburg and Eldora I&#8217;m feeling a bit frustrated that I haven&#8217;t managed to capture any photos yet, but tonight was a real eye-opener. In the western sky, slightly to the right of what I think might be Venus&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/central-iowa-lights-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Central iowa lights&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}