{"id":553,"date":"2025-03-09T14:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/central-iowa-lights\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T14:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:45:27","slug":"central-iowa-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/central-iowa-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Central iowa lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Central Iowa Lights Observation<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Date &amp; Time:<\/strong> 8:00 PM, February 20, 2025<br \/>\n<strong>Location:<\/strong> Central Iowa, between Wellsburg and Eldora  <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m feeling a bit frustrated that I haven\u2019t managed to capture a photo yet, but tonight was particularly intense. In the western sky, to the right of what I think was Venus (or possibly Jupiter), I\u2019ve been noticing a series of lights\u2014usually three or four\u2014appearing around 8 PM for approximately two minutes. However, tonight I spotted five lights and was determined to finally get a picture. I pulled over and turned off my headlights, and to my surprise, I saw 12 lights lined up. There may have been even more, but they began blinking out as I tried to snap a photo. I was so shaken that the picture turned out poorly. This has been occurring almost every night since last fall. I\u2019ll keep trying to take photos and share them here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nCentral Iowa Lights Observation Date &amp; Time: 8:00 PM, February 20, 2025 Location: Central Iowa, between Wellsburg and Eldora I\u2019m feeling a bit frustrated that I haven\u2019t managed to capture a photo yet, but tonight was particularly intense. In the western sky, to the right of what I think was Venus (or possibly Jupiter), I\u2019ve&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/central-iowa-lights\/\" 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":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","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\/553","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=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}