UFOMYST
CaseFireball2011

Bettendorf, IA, USA

Saw 8 fireballs floating over Bettendorf high school in a group. After a couple minutes they dispersed. The appeared to fly or "drive"

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-07-10
Where
Bettendorf, IA, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
41.524, -90.516 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-bettendorf-ia-2011-c7479d
Wave

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In context

  • One of 20 documented reports from Bettendorf, IA in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Iowa logged 45 sightings in 2011.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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