UFOMYST
CaseFireball2020

Bentonsport, IA, USA

In Keosauqua Iowa on 8/12/2020 around 10:30pm, my boyfriend and I were outside standing near the Des Moines River trying to observe the

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-08-01
Where
Bentonsport, IA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
40.726, -91.854 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-bentonsport-ia-2020-e6ec34
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

  • Bentonsport, IA has 1 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 72 reports from Iowa.
  • The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Report

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