UFOMYST
CaseTriangle2014

Bettendorf, IA, USA

At first I thought it was a shooting star. Then the colors changed and I noticed it wasn't falling but rising. It stopped.

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (122 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-26
Where
Bettendorf, IA, USA
Shape
Triangle
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
41.524, -90.516 · exact
Slug
triangle-over-bettendorf-ia-2014-a9d86b
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

  • This is one of 20 reports logged in Bettendorf, IA.
  • This case is one of 69 Iowa reports filed in 2014.
  • Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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