CaseTeardrop2009
Riverside, IA, USA
Two Slow Flying Fireballs Within Seven Minutes
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (46 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-09-05
- Where
- Riverside, IA, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 2 minutes times 2
- Geo
- 41.480, -91.581 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-riverside-ia-2009-b0dcc9
Wave
Part of a wave
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
- Riverside, IA shows up 2 times across the archive.
- 42 reports came from Iowa in 2009.
- In the 2000s, 1.1% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.