CaseTriangle2007

Bettendorf, IA, USA

Tiangular 3 white lighted object hovering with no sound

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (55 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2007-09-14
Where
Bettendorf, IA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
4 minutes
Geo
41.524, -90.516 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-bettendorf-ia-2007-f341e5
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…

In context

  • Bettendorf, IA shows up 20 times across the archive.
  • 51 reports came from Iowa in 2007.
  • In the 2000s, 10.1% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.

Report

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