Bellevue, IA, USA
This is the first time I have reproted this occurrance. I was between 10-12 (have have to go back to where my bed was placed in my bedr
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1966-06-15
- Where
- Bellevue, IA, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- summer
- Geo
- 42.259, -90.423 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-bellevue-ia-1966-a47794
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Bellevue, IA shows up 1 times across the archive.
- 5 reports came from Iowa in 1966.
- In the 1960s, 23.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
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