CaseSphere1998
Bettendorf, IA, USA
SOFT BALL SIZE FLOATING BALL OF LIGHT. APPEARED TO BE UNDER SOME TYPE OF CONTROL.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 360s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-10-18
- Where
- Bettendorf, IA, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5-7 MIN.
- Geo
- 41.524, -90.516 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-bettendorf-ia-1998-2805d9
In context
- Bettendorf, IA has 20 sightings on file here.
- 1998 brought 18 reports from Iowa.
- The 1990s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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