UFOMYST
CaseFlash2010

Fort Madison, IA, USA

UFO Crashland in Fort Madison Iowa high school football field

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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (61 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2010-03-18
Where
Fort Madison, IA, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
5 seconds
Geo
40.630, -91.315 · exact
Slug
flash-over-fort-madison-ia-2010-41f005
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

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In context

  • This is one of 3 reports logged in Fort Madison, IA.
  • This case is one of 50 Iowa reports filed in 2010.
  • Flash craft made up 2% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

Report

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