UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2013

Eldridge, IA, USA

Craft hovered for approx 10-15 mins.; seemed to.change shape occasionally and also color from, green, red, blue, and white.

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (123 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-01-04
Where
Eldridge, IA, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
41.658, -90.585 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-eldridge-ia-2013-78eaac
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    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

  • Eldridge, IA shows up 6 times across the archive.
  • 81 reports came from Iowa in 2013.

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within 30 days

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