UFOMYST
CaseCircle2014

Bettendorf, IA, USA

Large round red-orange glowing or burning object, shooting very fast through the sky going north, bigger than a plane & faster.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (127 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-31
Where
Bettendorf, IA, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
41.524, -90.516 · exact
Slug
circle-over-bettendorf-ia-2014-e00229
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • Bettendorf, IA shows up 20 times across the archive.
  • 69 reports came from Iowa in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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