UFOMYST
CaseLight2018

Bettendorf, IA, USA

facing East I saw an large orange light (I thought it was medivac hel.) no sound. I called my sister to look out. phone 20:55 call last

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-12-24
Where
Bettendorf, IA, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
41.524, -90.516 · exact
Slug
light-over-bettendorf-ia-2018-3d8f17
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

  • Bettendorf, IA has 20 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 33 reports from Iowa.
  • The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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