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Date / Time	City	State	Shape	Duration	Summary	Posted
1/18/21 20:25	Oxford Junction	IA	Cigar	7 minutes	I noticed a strange light out the window of my house to see, two very bright lights. I checked the flightradar24 live website Immediat	1/19/21
1/15/21 17:30	North Liberty	IA	Light	~10 seconds	Bright blue light under the cloud line going in an upward diagonal line until disappearing into the clouds.	1/19/21
12/28/20 06:15	Marion	IA	Light	4 min	Night red light with small white lights.	1/19/21
12/19/20 20:30	Sioux City	IA	Light	1 minute	We observed a very bright white light heading west to east at a very high rate of speed. We were on the farm and had very good view of	12/23/20
12/19/20 20:30	Sioux City	IA	Light	1 minute	We observed a very bright white light heading west to east at a very high rate of speed. We were on the farm and had very good view of	12/23/20
12/8/20 18:00	Fredericksburg	IA	Rectangle	10 seconds	I was Driving northbound on hwy 63, 3 miles south of hwy 18 when i saw a bright white lighted, Rectangular object moving very fast thro	12/23/20
12/4/20 19:00	Iowa City	IA	Sphere	40s	UFO fleet in straight line pattern over Iowa City 04Dec2020	12/23/20
12/4/20 06:45	Urbandale	IA	Formation	2 minutes	At approximately 6:45pm, I walked outside with my family. We saw at least 20 lights in a line move in unison. The lights disappeared as	12/23/20
12/4/20	Ft.atkinson	IA	Circle	10 minutes	50 round lights in perfect row starting nw sky to nc sky moving slow. At aprox. 45 degees in sky lights faded out one at a time. Ligh	12/23/20
11/16/20 21:00	Nevada	IA	Triangle	1 min	Triangular object floated smoothly and silently over my backyard. It came from the North and kept going South. It looked like a V-Forma	12/23/20
11/6/20 06:00	Truro	IA	Cylinder	2-3 minutes	Metallic cylinder shape object zig-zagging across sky at a very high rate of speed.	12/23/20
10/14/20 23:11	Cedar Rapids	IA	Formation	2 minutes	Line of lights sitting over the cedar river	12/23/20
10/8/20 02:40	Coggon	IA	Circle	2 seconds	Bright Green light moving across sky in Iowa	12/23/20
10/1/20 21:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Triangle	4 minutes	At 9:00 pm on Thursday October 1st, I was taking out my garbage when I saw a aircraft slowly coming towards my home, west to east, goin	11/5/20
9/30/20 06:30	Nebraska City	IA	Circle	3 minutes	3 circle shaped craft flying in triangle formation start spinning and switching places changing directions very quickly	11/5/20
9/24/20 22:00	Dallas Center	IA	Light	1 minute	Multi colored flashing object zig zags across the sky, then splits into a triangle and disappears.	11/5/20
9/15/20 20:35	Indianola	IA	Flash	3 seconds	I was walking my dogs!at night and we were up on a hill—for a moment there seemed to be a shooting star flashing across the tree line.	11/5/20
9/8/20 16:36	Council Bluffs	IA			MADAR Node 133	11/5/20
9/1/20 03:00	Ames	IA	Light	2 seconds	Light in sky defying gravity and disappearing in rural Iowa	9/4/20
8/20/20 21:00	Knoxville	IA	Light	1 minute	Lights in the sky	8/27/20
8/19/20 21:32	Des Moines	IA	Triangle	2 minutes	Gliding triangle in the sky, non blinking blue light on left side and non blinking red light on right side	8/20/20
8/16/20 13:00	Sioux City	IA	Disk	Several hours	Bright star seen in middle of day. With binoculars you could see it was a flying saucer like object	8/20/20
8/1/20 22:50	Bentonsport	IA	Fireball	5 minutes	In Keosauqua Iowa on 8/12/2020 around 10:30pm, my boyfriend and I were outside standing near the Des Moines River trying to observe the	8/6/20
7/25/20 23:00	Shellsburg	IA	Light	Still happening	As we were looking for the comet I noticed a light that was moving erratically back forth up down a little to the east of the dipper th	7/31/20
7/15/20 21:47	Ankeny	IA	Other	5 minutes	Brilliant white object over Ankeny, IA, moving to the north /northeast	7/23/20
7/12/20 10:54	Council Bluffs	IA			MADAR Node 133	7/23/20
6/11/20 14:51	Council Bluffs	IA			MADAR Node 133	7/9/20
5/17/20 10:00	East Amana	IA	Sphere	20 minutes	2 round objects were in a marshy wooded area, which left when approached	6/25/20
5/16/20 19:10	Persia	IA	Disk	2 seconds	I got it on video by accident during storm.	6/25/20
5/2/20 22:50	Eagle Grove	IA	Light	5 seconds	Small light traversing entire night sky in seconds from South to North to Northeast	6/25/20
5/2/20 03:30	Storm Lake	IA		10 minutes	I was asleep in my bed around 1:00am. I had a dream regarding aliens. The more it went, the more real it became. I found myself “awake”	6/25/20
4/30/20 21:09	Des Moines	IA	Disk	2 minutes	hovering saucer nears ground then disappears in sky	6/25/20
4/27/20 21:15	Chariton	IA	Light	3 minutes	Line of 30-40 white lights moving single file through the sky from NW to SE	6/25/20
4/26/20 21:15	Maysville	IA	Formation	3-4 minutes	30-50 White lights in a perfect line. ((Starlink satellites?))	6/25/20
4/20/20 23:00	Badger	IA		1.5 hours	((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information. Later reports that event was caused by sighting of Venus. PD))	5/1/20
4/18/20 22:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Other	30-45 minutes	31 satellite like objects flying straight line West to east ((Starlink satellites?))	6/25/20
4/18/20 21:19	Oskaloosa	IA	Circle	~50 minutes	21 "star" like objects moving west/north east one after another, 2 side by side objects moving N to S. ((Starlink satellites))	5/7/20
4/18/20 21:00	Manly	IA	Formation	20 minutes	22-25 objects in uniform straight line over northern Iowa. ((Starlink satellites?))	6/25/20
4/18/20 21:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light		we noticed and counted over 65 crafts flying in straight line from West to East ((Starlink satellites?))	6/25/20
4/9/20 21:25	Emmetsburg	IA	Other	20 seconds	Two lights at even distance	5/7/20
4/9/20 21:20	Waterloo	IA	Light	15 minutes	While looking towards North sky spotted small starlike light moving from west to east. ((Starlink satellites))	5/7/20
4/6/20 19:30	West Branch	IA	Light	00:05 aka 5 mins	Driving south on Garfield towards spring dale, during an early/bright sunset, I saw to the East a BRILLIANT large bright light, hoverin	6/25/20
3/31/20 12:05	Ankeny	IA	Formation	4-5 minutes	White cluster of 20+ rotating objects in the sky forming a circle	6/25/20
3/29/20 20:00	Maxwell	IA	Light	20 minutes	10 lights moving across the sky flashing red green and blue. Light remained blue most the time. ((Starlink satellites))	6/25/20
3/28/20 21:00	Lowden	IA	Circle	1 hour	Constant string of white fast moving dots evenly spaced out. Did see 2 across from each other. ((Starlink satellites))	5/21/20
3/28/20 20:20	Cedar Rapids	IA	Sphere	15 minutes	Objects flying in the same path with same speed and distance apart. ((Starlink satellites))	5/21/20
3/28/20 20:00	Davenport	IA	Oval	45 minutes	Around 8p.m. 7 or 8 oval shaped ufo’s were flying around in different patterns, all flying at a fast speed. I used my telescope to look	5/21/20
3/28/20 08:00	Davenport	IA	Circle	1 hour	((NUFORC Note: No information provided by witness. PD))	5/15/20
3/26/20 20:45	Spencer	IA	Light	35 minutes	42 lights, equally spaced flying SW to NE. ((Starlink satellites))	5/21/20
3/24/20 22:00	Waterloo	IA	Circle	3-5 minutes	Thought was falling star at first as had blueish green color at end. Then it appeared up in the sky. Blue,white, red, colors on it. Was	5/21/20
3/20/20 21:30	Sioux City	IA	Circle	5 minutes	Shocking 15 satellite like objects flying in the night sky in pattern one after another. (("Starlink" satellites??))	4/9/20
3/6/20 19:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	5 minutes	Small lights appeared in the western sky and started moving NE about the same size and brightness ((Starlink satellites))	5/1/20
3/6/20 05:00	Davenport	IA	Formation	7 minutes	15 to 20 lights, appearing out of the big dipper, traveling south east at even spacing, straight line, ((Starlink satellites))	5/1/20
3/4/20 05:20	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	15-20 minutes	Substantial amount of 'satellites'. (("Starlink" satellites??))	4/9/20
3/4/20 05:15	Ames	IA	Light	3 minutes	11 lights in a row traveling 3-4 times as fast as aircraft without any sound. (("Starlink" satellites??))((anonymous))	4/9/20
3/1/20 11:00	Indianola	IA	Triangle	4 minutes	Two orange glowing triangular planes started flying towards my house. Flew very low and slow. Could only hear a soft purr of an engine.	4/9/20
2/21/20 05:00	Council Bluffs	IA			MADAR Node 133	4/9/20
2/20/20 19:00	Clear Lake	IA	Disk	4 seconds	It started off looking like a shooting star, but it went more green and turned into a disk shape and zipped off into the distance.	2/25/20
2/20/20 19:00	Dexter	IA	Circle	3 seconds	The object was green and looked like a star. It moved above me and traveled from East to the West horizon.	2/25/20
2/20/20 05:30	Laurel	IA		15 minutes	30 bright objects in early morning hour (5:30 AM) moving NW to SE., lead 3 in a triangle pattern (("Starlink satellites??))	4/9/20
2/6/20 22:00	Rockford	IA	Unknown	Unknown	Night sky . East south east of my location. Low on the horizon. Flashing or strobing bright lights. No regular pattern. Bright red at	2/13/20
1/15/20 18:43	Council Bluffs	IA	Light	5-9 minutes	Multiple tiny lights in the sky traveling in a straight line evenly spaced. (("Starlink" satellites??))	2/7/20
1/15/20 18:35	Dunkerton	IA	Formation	4 minutes	A straight formation of at least 20 aircraft Very high in the atmosphere All disappearing at same point. (("Spacelink satellites??))	2/7/20
1/14/20 12:15	Windsor Heights	IA	Rectangle	3 minutes	Dark rectangular object floating in the sky before descending towards the ground.	2/7/20
1/13/20 17:46	Council Bluffs	IA			MADAR Node 133	2/7/20
1/11/20 20:00	Alden Williams	IA	Light	1 hour	I was driving home from down town and looked off to the Southwest and seen a exstremley bright lite kinda looked oval in shape but it a	2/7/20
1/9/20 18:58	Bluegrass	IA	Light	2 minutes	Single white light that I originally assumed it was a star. I watched it for a couple minutes while I was driving south on US 61. I gla	2/7/20
1/9/20 18:30	Fairfield	IA	Light	>30 minutes	Upstairs neighbor knocked on our door and led us outside. She said it was tons of drones. (("Starlink" satellites??))a	1/31/20
1/8/20 11:15	Coralville	IA	Sphere	45 seconds	A black sphere that taveled in a straight line until out of sight.	2/7/20
1/7/20 21:00	Atkins	IA	Light	4 seconds	Green lights over field near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, shot off into space	2/7/20
1/7/20 18:15	Cedar Rapids	IA	Unknown	7 minutes	Witnessed (14) flying objects flying NW to SE over Cedar Rapids. (("Starlink" satellites??))	2/7/20
1/6/20 17:30	Bradford	IA	Light	3 minutes	Object Hovering still with two white lights, one flashing. No noise.	2/7/20
1/4/20 19:50	Maxwell	IA	Changing	20 minutes	What appeared to be a bright light in the western sky started changing from a ball to a vertical shape with blue and orange lights emit	2/7/20
1/2/20 01:40	Des Moines	IA	Disk	5	Object changing colors (green,red,white) moving very unnaturally..	2/7/20
12/27/19 22:30	Chelsea	IA	Other	15 minutes	Row of 10-12 circles. (("Starlink" satellites??))	2/7/20
12/27/19 22:30	Chelsea	IA	Unknown	Unknown	10-12 circular lights lined up on a hill	2/7/20
12/25/19 17:30	Stacyville	IA	Light	1 minute	Multiple Objects moving East in a row one after another. (("Spacelink" satellites.))	2/7/20
12/22/19 18:30	Fairfield	IA	Light	5 minutes	8 lights flying S to equal distance from each other and disappeared ((NUFORC Note: Starlink satellites? PD))	12/22/19
12/22/19 10:30	Council Bluffs	IA			MADAR Node 133	1/31/20
12/20/19 18:50	Milo	IA	Formation	18:53	Orange lights in triangle formation	12/22/19
12/7/19 23:44	Ames	IA	Unknown	Over a few hours	I was driving home after dropping off a friend... as we were hanging out, we were looking at the sky and saw a very weird looking shoot	12/19/19
11/24/19 05:45	Burlington	IA	Light	5 minutes	Points of light moving across the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Starlink satellites? PD))	12/22/19
11/19/19	Des Moines	IA	Light	17:27	Light disk object bigger than plane enters atmosphere.	12/1/19
10/17/19 07:48	Stanhope	IA	Circle	2 min.	Seen while driving home to the west. Looked like an orange light that got close really fast then disapered in a blink.	12/1/19
10/7/19 21:10	Bondurant	IA	Circle	20 minutes	Circle of lights flashing different colors and yellow larger lights	12/1/19
9/30/19 20:57	Altoona	IA	Fireball	2 minutes	Bright orange ball over Iowa	10/4/19
9/24/19 23:44	Council Bluffs (outside of)	IA	Light	15 minutes	My Son and Myself had taken His Son to Sioux Falls South Dakota on 9/24/2019.On the way back at 10:34 PM exactly 63 miles from Council	10/4/19
9/9/19 21:00	Graettinger	IA	Circle	2 minutes	Son driving home- in the country. He saw a circular shape rotating with 3 bright lights. The lights were also circulating. The object w	2/7/20
9/2/19 21:45	Council Bluffs	IA	Circle	20 minutes	Standing alone object in night sky changes color after I shine flashlight on it.	9/6/19
8/25/19 16:30	New London	IA			MADAR Node 108	9/6/19
8/24/19 23:00	Muscatine	IA	Changing	4 minutes	Diferent colored lights changing shape.	9/6/19
8/12/19 20:44	West Des Moines	IA	Triangle	1 minute	Did not see the light in the sky. It was sunset and there was some very interesting mid-altitude shadowing that seemed to have no origi	8/23/19
8/4/19 22:00	Centerville	IA	Cigar	30 minutes	Seen several what looked to be planes but had no wings. Looked to be 'fake planes" they went in straight lines and looked like pla	8/23/19
8/3/19 22:15	Lewis	IA	Sphere	10 seconds	White orb hovering before shooting off into the sky	8/23/19
8/3/19 22:00	Bondurant	IA	Sphere	15	Southeast sky of Altoona Iowa. Was a bright large light..disappeared in a quick instance	8/23/19
7/13/19 03:00	Logan	IA	Light	4 minutes	orb shaped light no noise 1000 ft in the air. ((anonymous report))	7/25/19
7/10/19 23:00	Des Moines	IA	Triangle	<1-2 minutes	Big Smooth Triangular shape flying alarmingly low and fast in DM, IA.	7/12/19
7/6/19 18:07	Coralville	IA	Changing	1 minute	Two circular objects were photographed interacting with clouds in Coralville, Iowa.	7/25/19
7/1/19 23:55	Des Moines	IA	Fireball	1 minutes	A bright red light hovering over downtown Des Moines, on the south end. The light was much larger than a plane, and moved more quickly	7/5/19
7/1/19 23:00	Moravia	IA	Circle	7 seconds	It went straight. Did a circle and left the direction it came. Very very fast. Then it disappeared.	7/12/19
6/28/19 05:00	Exline	IA	Chevron	10 seconds	Saw 3 blinking white lights in sky, looked closer and saw a gray colored chevron shape hovering for about 10 to 15 seconds and then dis	7/5/19
6/9/19 19:22	Council Bluffs	IA			MADAR 133	6/27/19
6/8/19 19:22	Council Bluffs	IA			MADAR Node 133	6/20/19
5/26/19 22:23	Cedar Rapids	IA	Circle	1 minute	5 family members happened to look up and see three circular objects flying. ((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))((anonymous))	6/7/19
5/26/19 02:00	West Des Moines	IA	Fireball	30 minutes	Orange and yellow blobs went west for thirty min.	6/7/19
5/21/19 21:50	West Liberty	IA	Sphere	8-10 minutes	Whitish/yellow bright light with twinkling blue lights around it, sphere shaped, moving slowly at first and quickly accelerating	6/7/19
5/14/19 20:30	Clutier	IA	Cigar	15 seconds	1 cigar shaped craft whitish silver flying at a slow rate of speed from south to north and then north to south.	6/7/19
4/2/19 09:40	Cedar Rapids	IA	Disk		Flying disc.	4/8/19
3/28/19 03:00	Grimes	IA	Chevron	10 seconds	Seen a bright green Chevron shaped light.. Came just below clouds going E. Then back up into clouds. ((anonymous report))	4/8/19
3/18/19 11:00	Greene (SE of)	IA	Cylinder		((NUFORC Note: Witness, who elects to remain anonymous, provides no information about the alleged sighting. PD))	3/21/19
3/16/19 05:00	Davenport	IA	Circle	1-2 minutes	4 bright white lights moving above Davenport and changing direction in unison	3/21/19
2/26/19 22:00	Glidden	IA	Light	15 minutes	3 orange/yellow lights like STARS IN SKY appeared one at a time and stayed in the sky for a few minutes and then disappeared.	2/27/19
2/10/19 05:00	Corning	IA	Unknown	30 minutes	Recorded multiple lights in the sky this last Sunday; they were moving and it was very unnatural.	2/14/19
2/5/19 05:20	Des Moines	IA	Cigar	10 minutes	Loud big noise sounded like soccer game fan horns that were constatnt for abour 6 minutes. ((anonymous report))	2/7/19
1/21/19 04:15	Indianola	IA	Flash	5 seconds	Bright flashing light zooming toward earth. ((anonymous report))	5/9/19
1/8/19 15:10	Newton	IA	Cylinder	4 minutes	Going eastbound on 4th ave after picking my son up a silver glowing object. It looked like a bright star in daylight, but noticed it qa	1/11/19
12/30/18 12:25	New London	IA			MADAR Node 99	1/4/19
12/24/18 20:55	Bettendorf	IA	Light	2 minutes	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	1/4/19
11/15/18 07:00	Cumming	IA	Fireball	15 minutes	Fireball falling from sky with elongated tail that condensed into ball that fell; made a sharp 90 degree turn S. ((contrail??))	11/24/18
11/14/18 05:00	Redfield	IA	Light	15 seconds	This happened yesterday and today, about the same place and time. I was heading west on Hwy 6 towards Redfield nearing Dead Man's curve	11/24/18
11/1/18 01:00	Davenport	IA	Light	2 seconds	Exiting Highway 61 onto I-280 and saw a light and was traveling low and very fast. It was not a falling star. ((anonymous report))	11/9/18
10/29/18 02:00	Sioux City	IA	Sphere	30 minutes+	Flashing multi-color sphere over Sioux City, IA. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a "twinkling" star? PD))	11/9/18
10/22/18 23:35	West Branch	IA	Light	3-5 seconds	Fire falling from the sky.	10/25/18
10/19/18 09:13	New London	IA			MADAR Node 99 test facility	10/25/18
10/19/18 07:30	Exira	IA	Rectangle	30 seconds	A huge flat metal one dimensional object with red and white lights flew over my house!	11/9/18
10/17/18 15:42	New London	IA			MADAR Node 99 test site	10/25/18
9/26/18 06:50	Iowa City	IA	Light	15 minutes	Driving E of Iowa City and looked to the sky. Above the horizon there were 2 elongated light objects that looked like white light.	9/27/18
9/18/18 03:08	Harlan	IA	Flash	1 hour	Blue flashes/orbs/dancing lights. ((anonymous report))	9/27/18
9/18/18 02:30		IA	Light	4	Communicating traveling orbs? ((anonymous report))	9/27/18
9/18/18 00:00	Osceola	IA	Circle	8 seconds	5 blue/grey circles in triangle shape. ((anonymous report))	9/27/18
9/17/18 19:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Formation	~60 secounds	3 bright orange or red lights in the sky in a rectangle shape. Just shot into the clouds. ((anonymous report))	9/27/18
9/17/18 04:17	Harlan ((assumed from ZIP code))	IA	Sphere	2 minutes	Odd moving falling star. ((anonymous report))	9/27/18
9/6/18 20:00	Adel	IA	Light	2 minutes	Could hear a plane from the deck looked up and seen it chasing a amber light north in the sky	9/13/18
8/27/18 21:00	Marshalltown	IA	Light	10 minutes	UFO	8/31/18
8/27/18 20:42	Keokuk	IA	Light	15 seconds	Bright light with no sound. Extremely fast. ((anonymous report))	8/31/18
8/6/18 20:30	Primghar (close to)	IA	Cylinder	~7 minutes	Two cylindrical golden objects moving slowly far above wind turbines IOWA.	8/17/18
8/6/18 20:30	Primghar (close to)	IA	Cylinder	~5 minutes	Two golden cylindrical distant objects far above the wind turbines	8/17/18
8/4/18 07:30	Vinton	IA			I was video taping a video I had taken of the birds in my yard. The original recording was on a different phone that I uploaded to my	6/7/19
7/20/18 23:30	Coon Rapids	IA	Light	1-2 minutes	Star like object going into faster than light travel.	8/10/18
7/14/18 22:00	Bradford	IA	Unknown	Seconds	Strange sound.	3/21/19
7/2/18 00:50	Ankeny	IA	Egg	20 minutes	Sitting at a red light at ordnance and hwy 69 and noticed a light in the sky. Car next to me also seen it and we all got out of the ca	7/5/18
6/17/18 23:00	Bettendorf	IA	Circle	30 seconds	2 greenish yellow circles.	6/21/18
6/6/18 18:37	Des Moines	IA	Disk	Discovered in picture	Taking pictures of storm clouds. A disc was noticed. About 30 degrees from vertical	6/15/18
4/16/18 21:38	Altoona	IA	Circle	2 minutes	Star like object solid light travelling NW 2137-2139. It flew over a normal plane travelling at regular altitude speed that was heading	4/19/18
3/14/18 21:30	Struble	IA	Chevron	2 minutes	First noticed the object while looking for satellites. It had an orange glowing appearance. Oject was moving NW. ((anonymous report))	3/23/18
2/27/18 02:30	Clear Lake	IA	Changing	1 hour	3 white lights in a triangular shape that would go bright and then dim, with a green flame streak behind the object. The object would	3/2/18
1/29/18 18:15	Newton	IA	Oval	:30	Bright object floating eastward near sunset over central Iowa	2/16/18
1/29/18 03:00	Pella	IA	Circle		Was a bright ball of light that just hoovering for a good few hours and as the it got darker it changed from bright to an Orange reddis	2/16/18
1/7/18 07:00	Underwood	IA	Triangle	2+ minutes	Pyramid hovering.	1/12/18
12/17/17 01:35	Cedar Rapids	IA	Flash	2-3 seconds	Bright double flash outside.	12/21/17
11/21/17 23:00	Williamsburg	IA	Circle	5 seconds	Driving west on highway 80, my husband and I witnessed this same exact object in the sky off to the north side of the highway. A ball o	12/4/17
11/16/17 08:20	Des Moines	IA	Cigar	20 seconds	No wings, flew fast, no noise, not on flight maps. White in color, sparkled in the morning sun and then vanished out of sight.	11/17/17
11/8/17 18:30	Iowa City	IA	Triangle	10 seconds	Triangular shaped craft on Nov. 8, 2017. ((anonymous reports))	1/4/19
11/3/17 04:15	Norwalk	IA		5 minutes	I did not see a craft, I took the dog out at 4:15a.m. looking West,slightly south,would hit the ground north of Cummings IA,there was a	11/3/17
11/1/17 18:45	Clinton	IA	Chevron	10 seconds	Large faint dimly lit chevron shaped lights travelling quickly high in the sky. ((anonymous report))	11/22/17
10/28/17 23:30	Council Bluffs	IA	Fireball	35 seconds	Slow moving red fireball over Omaha.	11/3/17
10/19/17 01:15	Des Moines	IA	Light	20 minutes	Two crafts, flashing orange and white lights, flying low and slow.	10/19/17
10/14/17 20:00	Des Moines	IA	Sphere	5 seconds	From where I seen this it's exactly 8.25 miles from the Iowa Air National Guard 132nd Wing.	1/24/19
10/10/17 14:00	Rathbun	IA	Other	3-5 minutes	Bluish orange planet-sized object stationary or orbiting far above the clouds. ((anonymous report))	5/9/19
9/26/17 22:45	Keokuk	IA	Oval	1 minute	ufo seen in Keokuk Iowa	10/5/17
9/25/17 02:15	Colfax	IA	Light	30 second intervals	I had just left the Colfax exit headed W when a flash of light with a bright white epicenter to the SE. ((anonymous report))	9/28/17
9/23/17 23:45	Sioux City	IA	Fireball	5 minutes	EXTREMELY bright ball appeared above me in my backyard.It lit up my back yard almost like the trees and yard were on fire.It was statio	9/28/17
9/19/17 04:58	Waterloo	IA	Disk	30 minutes	Brightest looking star you've ever seen, but moved abnormally fast and moved in zig-zag patterns. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))	9/21/17
9/15/17 19:45	West Des Moines	IA	Light	30-45 seconds	Bright orange light moving slowly overhead.	9/21/17
9/7/17 12:15	Nashua	IA	Sphere	15 seconds	((HOAX CONFIRMED)) North of Nashua approx. one mile, 2 glowing balls. Motionless when first observed - perhaps at an alt. of 2000'.	9/8/17
8/13/17 05:00	Des Moines	IA	Light	15 minutes	Light in the sky that randomly changed color.	1/4/19
8/7/17 22:03	Moorland	IA	Circle	1 minute	Wavering slow moving single white circular light that I watched fly over for a minute, then it flew straight and was gone in seconds.	8/11/17
7/28/17 22:00	Hawarden	IA	Sphere	10 minutes	Glowing reddish orange orb seen.	8/4/17
7/27/17 22:43	Clinton	IA	Circle	30-45 seconds	Star gazing and saw what appeared to be a very large, bright star, that appeared out of nowhere in the eastern sky. The star like light	8/4/17
7/10/17 23:00	Lamoni	IA	Disk	Night time	Me and friends were outside talking, and I looked up,and said holy crap look we all looked up and we seen a object that looked like a s	7/14/17
7/8/17 22:10	Manilla	IA	Circle	10 seconds	2 Red lights seen over small Iowa town, then disappeared!	7/14/17
7/6/17 22:00	Marshalltown	IA	Fireball	10 seconds	Orange/red light seen on west side of town.	7/7/17
7/5/17 00:00	Sioux City	IA	Oval	1 minute	Oval red glowingly orb hovering over some fireworks, slowly moving to the NE at a slow pace. 6 pictures.	7/23/17
7/3/17 23:30	Sioux City	IA	Fireball	15 minutes	I witnessed a bright red light that I thought was a Chinese lantern, but blue lights were pulsating around it. The object started chang	7/7/17
7/3/17 21:00	East Dubuque	IA	Light	2.5 minutes	Lights over eastern Dubuque	7/7/17
6/10/17 11:00	Croton	IA	Light	5 minutes	I have never seen anything like this before	6/15/17
6/4/17 22:00	West Des Moines	IA	Disk	20 minutes	((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information. PD))	6/9/17
6/4/17 00:30	Lake View	IA	Sphere	3 minutes	Orange sphere in the sky, changing speed and direction.	6/9/17
5/14/17 23:00	Des Moines	IA	Circle	1 minute	Orange/amber fuzzy sphere moving across sky in Central Iowa, S.E. to N.W..	5/15/17
5/8/17 00:00	Jewell	IA	Sphere	90 minutes	We saw a glowing sphere with no blinking lights or sound. It was moving from E to W. And it stopped at one point.	6/22/17
4/22/17 20:40	Des Moines	IA	Light	20 seconds	Saw 3 orange lights in a triangular formation to the north of south eastern Des Moines. They were stationary but seemed to blink in and	4/28/17
4/13/17 08:30	Des Moines	IA	Circle	15 minutes	Bright red object spotted above north side of Des Moines	4/20/17
4/10/17 01:00	Des Moines	IA	Light	2 minutes	BRIGHT ORANGE BALL TURNS TO DISC LIKE UFO.	4/13/17
4/4/17 00:00	Manchester	IA	Triangle	10 minutes?	Triangle that matched the color of the night sky. One red light at the face of the triangle and two white lights in the back.	4/13/17
3/19/17 21:00	Carroll	IA	Triangle	45 seconds	5 silent grayish triangle crafts flying in a "V" formation. This is the second time I've seen them. No trails behind them at	3/23/17
3/7/17 22:00	Adel	IA	Light	1 second	Gold light resembling a shooting star darts across Eastern sky, instantly veers upwards, then disappears. ((anonymous report))	4/7/17
2/26/17 18:00	Dubuque	IA	Triangle	Nightly-2 hours	Dubuque, Ia.-Constant bright white lighted stationary triangle?shaped object in the western sky every night in Feb 2017 approx fr 6-8pm	3/10/17
2/21/17 01:00	Newton	IA	Triangle	2 minutes	Viewed 3 white lights in a triangle formation moving south west at a low altitude. I watched it as long as i could from my drive way. I	3/10/17
2/17/17 20:30	Holstein	IA	Light	Awhile	Bright light seen in night sky with ring of red lights underneath.	2/22/17
2/13/17 21:30	West Union	IA	Chevron	10 minutes	Myself my wife and a friend stepped outside. While out in front of the house no more than a few minutes later we noticed 8 orange glowi	2/17/17
2/11/17 14:45	Ames	IA	Triangle	3 seconds	Three lights in a triangular formation.	2/17/17
2/9/17 20:30	Adel	IA	Light	5 minutes	Bright bronze light in low Eastern horizon, slowly moving North; sighted in Adel, IA.	4/7/17
2/1/17 05:05	Dubuque	IA	Disk	3 seconds	February 1, 2017 was driving west, alone across Julien Dubuque bridge.(Between Iowa and Ill.) When looking up I saw a disk shaped c	3/10/17
12/13/16 21:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Triangle	10-15 seconds	((HOAX??)) WATCHING THE METEOER SHOWER WHEN WE SAW 3 TRIANGLE SHAPED OBJECTS THAT WERE IN A TRIANGLE FORMATION FLY BY FAST.	12/15/16
12/13/16 19:00	Dubuque	IA	Light	5 seconds	Stopped at the light at the intersection of Highway 20 facing north from Cedar Cross Road. An extraordinary fast moving bright white	12/15/16
12/13/16 05:35	West Des Moines	IA	Light	3 seconds	Large ball of light falling to earth at a incrediable speed. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor?? PD))	12/15/16
12/11/16 22:30	Casey	IA	Light	5 seconds	Blue/white light flying at an insane rate of speed. Probably ~15,000' high. It flew W, and turned in an abrupt, yet smooth curve.	12/15/16
12/5/16 23:30	Elgin	IA	Light	3-5 minutes	Multiple red lights/balls taking off from ground in Iowa. ((anonymous report))	7/5/19
11/15/16 20:10	Bettendorf	IA	Light	2 minutes	Orange lights over the Quad Cites.	12/5/16
11/13/16 05:00	Bagley	IA	Other	20 minutes	Falling Stars and Cloaked Sightings.	12/5/16
11/11/16 21:50	Jasper County	IA	Flash	2 seconds	Brief flash of light seen in the sky. Three people in the same area but separate from each other saw the light.	12/5/16
11/10/16 21:53	Eldora	IA	Light	30 seconds	Three friends and I were walking at about 9:50. Not long after that, the area around us was lit up by a green ring. This green ring/lig	12/5/16
11/10/16 21:53	Eldora	IA	Light	30 seconds	Green light and green ring.	12/5/16
11/7/16 06:03	Creston	IA	Sphere	1 minute	Orange, fast moving, no sounds, no other colors except solid orange and a reddish glow, slight haze.	11/11/16
11/6/16 18:15	Osceola	IA	Flash	15 minutes	Riding home from work, noticed object in the sky to the west flashing erraticly. After it had flashed once it would reappear off to the	11/11/16
10/18/16 21:00	Marion	IA	Circle	3 minutes	I think I witnessed a meteorite or meteor streaking through the sky to the north .the bright light went from looking like a bright star	10/21/16
10/2/16 21:00	Des Moines	IA	Light	>30 minutes	Point of light that is strobing red, blue and possible green and orange and seems in a stable position.	10/11/16
10/2/16 00:45	Iowa City	IA	Light	12 minutes	A group of red lights flying across the sky, rising from the horizon one at a time,increasing in altitude and disappearing out of view.	10/11/16
9/8/16 01:00	Centerville	IA	Oval	5 minutes	Orange oval light moving north then south	9/15/16
9/1/16 04:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	1+ hour	Odd light above Cedar Rapids, Iowa. ((NUFORC Note: Probably the star, Sirius, in the SE sky, we suspect. PD))	9/2/16
9/1/16 02:02	Marshalltown	IA	Unknown	3 seconds	Bright light West of Marshalltown, IA.	9/2/16
8/1/16 19:27	Dubuque	IA	Triangle	6-7 minutes	1000 yards alt, triangular (large) floated over home traveling west to due East-complete w/ lights. Was silent.	9/2/16
7/14/16 23:15	Cedar Falls	IA	Unknown	4 minutes	White dimming object north of Cedar Falls Mall.	7/15/16
7/11/16 22:25	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	1 minute	Amber, oval shaped light in the sky that disappears after a minute or two	7/15/16
7/3/16 21:40	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	3-4 minutes	Unkown amber pulsating light	7/8/16
7/3/16 00:00	Dyersville	IA	Fireball	5 minutes	((CRAZY??)) The object was flying south bound in the sky. Looked like a giant orange/red candle flame. Was floating up and down.	12/5/16
6/29/16 10:10	Waterloo	IA	Light	<2 minutes	Strange orange light appeared and mysteriously disappeared above clouds immediately.	7/8/16
6/11/16 11:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Unknown	40 seconds	Saw an orange colored circular object moving in the clouds. This was no plane or helicopter. ((anonymous report))	6/16/16
6/4/16 21:00	Des Moines	IA	Light	Few minutes	Blue and white sphere close to the ground South of Des Moines, IA.	6/10/16
5/28/16 11:00	Burlington	IA	Sphere	1 minute	Chrome sphere near ammunition plant.	6/24/16
5/15/16 22:30	Robins	IA	Unknown	3 minutes	Green red white lights about 60 foot up from large size craft.	5/20/16
5/5/16 01:45	Batavia	IA	Circle	30 minutes	White lights brighter than stars. thrugh binoculars you could see round craft detail of many lights outlined.	5/6/16
4/21/16 18:00	Waterloo	IA	Other	1 minute	((HOAX??)) I saw 15-25 silvery greenish figures flying around the sky. Attempted to follow them. ((anonymous))	4/22/16
4/18/16 20:00	Muscatine	IA	Formation	30 minutes	At 20:00 hours I observed a large triangular shaped craft on the SW side of town, heading NE.	4/22/16
4/15/16 22:15	Ossian	IA	Circle	5 seconds	Very large, bright green object with tail streaking across night sky in southern Winneshiek County, Iowa. ((anonymous))	4/22/16
4/12/16 16:19	Muscatine	IA	Sphere	10 minutes	5 spheres moving in formation.	4/15/16
3/5/16 23:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Flash	5 minutes	5 bright flashes in different spots in clear night sky.	3/11/16
2/27/16 20:00	Sioux City	IA	Formation	10 seconds	My husband and I were grilling when I saw a boomerang shaped object that was translucent and very dimly lit in a peachy/pink color. It	3/4/16
2/15/16 19:00	Dubuque	IA	Fireball	10-12 seconds	((HOAX??)) I spotted a crimson light heading W for maybe 5 sec. It stopped, changed color to a emerald green and shot off to the W.	2/19/16
1/28/16 20:40	Waukee	IA	Fireball	5 minutes	Large orange fireball moved across the sky from north to south.	1/29/16
1/14/16 21:10	Marion	IA	Fireball	3 minutes	Burning fireball traveling fast over Marion, Iowa, towards the northeast.	1/29/16
1/13/16 22:15	Cedar Falls	IA	Fireball	10 minutes	Red/Orange sphere seen descending over Cedar Falls/North Cedar.	1/14/16
1/5/16 21:45	Windsor Heights	IA	Chevron	150 seconds	5 lights in chevron pattern, very low in the sky (maybe 250ft from ground).	1/8/16
1/4/16 07:05	Des Moines	IA	Formation	<5 seconds	6 bright orange lights in 2 vertical lines of 3.	1/8/16
12/4/15 21:00	Charles City	IA	Light	5 seconds	Blue ball of light moving through the sky low and slow.	12/10/15
11/19/15 21:02	Cedar Falls	IA	Triangle	7-8	V shaped dark object traveling East SE at approx 250 MPH.	11/26/15
11/19/15 20:30	Ames	IA	Triangle	<1 minute	Gliding V-shaped object with lights	11/20/15
11/14/15 19:40	Carroll	IA	Triangle	4 seconds	Seemingly undetectable triangle craft detected briefly over Carroll, Iowa.	11/19/15
11/13/15 22:30	Davenport	IA	Unknown	10 seconds	Large bird like shaped object that was transparent and details could not be made out so easily.	11/19/15
11/8/15 21:30	Urbandale	IA	Other	3-5 seconds	I was doing my job walking dogs when I saw three lights in a diagonal pattern shoot across the sky. Way too fast to be planes/helicopte	11/19/15
11/6/15 01:00	Sidney	IA	Unknown	~15 seconds	Beautiful formation with stunning lights in Sidney, Iowa, seen more than once.	12/3/15
11/4/15 01:00	Granger	IA	Light	30 seconds	Was watching a movie in bed facing the window looking towards the eastern skyline when a streak of bright white light went downwards.	11/6/15
10/20/15 10:00	Sioux City	IA	Unknown	10 minutes	Unknown craft observed with red blinking lights	10/29/15
10/18/15 08:00	Dubuque	IA	Fireball	10 minutes	Orange fiery globes, travelling in the same path	10/29/15
10/11/15 23:00	Sioux City	IA	Fireball	a green streaming light	I saw a green streaming light, looked as if it had a tail. Came from the east ,going west. Crossed over I 29 an it disappeared .	10/16/15
10/10/15 20:30	Muscatine	IA	Light	2-3 seconds	Bright light in the sky.	10/16/15
9/29/15 21:00	Cedar Falls	IA	Other	5 minutes	My brother and I saw a translucent white boomerang shaped object fly soundlessly across our sky in Cedar Falls, IA at the location of C	10/2/15
9/28/15 02:44	Cedar Rapids	IA	Unknown	5 minutes	Blue light, then followed by a bright flash, before disappearing.	9/29/15
9/26/15 23:15	Maryville	IA	Other	10 minutes	Craft spotted very distantly NNE of Lake Mozongo outside of Maryville. The craft consisted of 2 vertical parallel light formations with	9/29/15
9/15/15 21:00	Des Moines	IA	Other	2 minutes	I work nights at a lighted driving range in the Des Moines, IA area. One night as I was walking around outside I noticed a very small	3/4/16
9/9/15 07:45	Frederika	IA	Light	3 minutes	Driving on 63 N noticed bright light in the sky above Frederika as I watched light flash was gone and saw sigar shape craft it lit up	9/11/15
9/4/15 22:15	Muscatine	IA	Triangle	5 seconds	Triangle shaped pinkish peach lights flying in arrow shape. low lights not bright but still obviously visable!	9/11/15
8/21/15 23:45	Keokuk	IA	Triangle	3-5 hours	Triangle UFO, two airplanes, other UFO, two trails away from triangle UFO	8/27/15
8/16/15 23:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Circle	12 minutes	Bright orange lights moving from NW to SE very slowly	8/27/15
8/15/15 21:42	Ames	IA	Diamond	1 minute	Clearly visible white diamond heading East turn to red as it quickly distanced prior to disappearing. No flashing, very vivid.	8/27/15
8/11/15 00:00	Council Bluffs	IA	Sphere	~1 hour	Slow-moving to the north, with red flashing lights.	8/13/15
8/6/15 23:15	Newton	IA	Diamond	45 seconds	A bright light just appeared.	8/13/15
8/4/15 21:40	Centerville	IA	Light	4-5 minutes	My dog, and I were out at the lake, the moon was nearly full and I wanted to take pictures of it, so we were out there in the dark.	8/13/15
8/3/15 21:45	West Point	IA	Circle	1.5 minutes	Round/circular orange object, north to south.	8/6/15
7/30/15 12:37	Des Moines	IA	Disk	5 seconds	Five shiny saucer like, tear drop objects in formation outside an airplane window.	8/27/15
7/29/15 13:32	Waterloo	IA	Sphere	1 minute	Looked like 15-16 spheres which had translucent colors. Rotated around each each other slowly then disappeared; reappeared.	7/31/15
7/29/15 02:30	Cedar Falls	IA	Formation	Hour	Question Mark Formation in the East.	8/6/15
7/20/15 00:00	Centerville	IA	Fireball	2 minutes	Fireball transformed to bird with fire wings and fire tail.	8/13/15
7/18/15 22:20	Council Bluffs	IA	Sphere	1 second	Bright white orb seen from Madison Ave..	7/23/15
7/13/15 23:00	Dubuque	IA	Light	15 minutes	Large craft moving then ceasing along w/ some sort of lighted craft that entered the view of the 'star' lit like craft.	7/17/15
7/4/15 22:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	20 seconds	Two separate, red circular lights seen after July 4th fireworks over Cedar Rapids	7/6/15
6/28/15 22:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	15-20 minutes	2 bright lights with flashing lights on sides. Hovering in western sky. ((NUFORC Note: Venus and Jupiter. PD))	7/3/15
6/22/15 22:30	Brayton	IA	Sphere	5-8 minutes	A foggy sphere in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Probably an out-gassing event from a spent rocket. PD))	6/24/15
6/5/15 22:00	Little Rock	IA	Circle	3-5 minutes	A low-flying UFO spotted 1 mile north of Little Rock and heading SE towards Sibley. Circular in shape with many flashing white lights.	6/15/15
6/3/15 20:40	Steamboat Rock	IA			((NUFORC Note: No information provided by the source. PD))	6/5/15
5/26/15 23:30	Sanborn	IA	Oval	5 minutes	3 reddish oval shaped with white lights inside them being followed by a black suburban.	5/29/15
5/13/15 22:00	Rockford	IA	Triangle	7 minutes	Flying object shaped as a triangle, with bright white lights in the front of it and blinking lights on each end.	5/22/15
5/13/15 21:00	Sioux City	IA	Sphere	4 seconds	Ball of light, strange maneuvering, disappeared.	5/22/15
4/27/15 21:15	Manchester	IA	Cylinder	1 minute	4 witnesses to what first appeared to be a star in the west sky. The bright light then started moving alarmingly fast in a west to east	4/30/15
4/5/15 18:45	North Liberty	IA	Light	90 seconds	Bright flying object. no sound. bright flash.	4/8/15
4/1/15 20:00	Fredericksburg	IA	Sphere	20:00-07:00	For over a year myself and other employees have watched 3 same lights over part of our town from 20:00-0700..	9/25/15
3/29/15 09:55	Oskaloosa	IA	Light	1 minute	Bright lights in the night sky going really fast.	4/3/15
3/7/15 22:00	Coralville	IA	Formation	120 seconds	Red lights in arch formation, low altitude, slow speed, no sound.	3/13/15
2/3/15 17:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	5 minutes	Strange, lighted object in Cedar Rapids	2/6/15
1/26/15 17:29	Fort Dodge	IA	Unknown	2 seconds	Me and my mother were looking outside to the west cause the clouds were orange and pinkish colors. We were taking pictures of how Beaut	1/30/15
1/23/15 23:23	Platsmouth (near; on Hwy S 29)	IA	Disk	1 minute	White saucer, blue lights, round, smooth looking material, exit on S 29 between Tabor and Platsmouth exits. Was beautiful.	1/26/15
12/25/14 20:30	Dubuque	IA	Sphere	2 minutes	Green orb came into sight, stopped in the sky, and started blinking; then took off.	1/7/15
12/25/14 16:25	Cedar Rapids	IA	Cylinder	4 minutes	White wingless silent cylinder moved at constant speed without contrail along an apparent straight flight path.	1/7/15
12/18/14 00:00	Charles City	IA	Light	6 minutes	Lights hovering.	12/18/14
12/12/14 17:30	Sioux City	IA	Other	180 seconds	Silent Matte Black Square.	12/18/14
12/3/14 06:50	Colwell	IA	Light	5 minutes	Reddish light fixed to the North, disappeared, returned as clear green light a mile to the East.	12/5/14
11/23/14 21:55	Oskaloosa	IA	Unknown	25 seconds	I was watching a movie and noticed out of the corner of my eye, through the window, something in the sky. I ran to the window.	11/26/14
11/19/14 22:00	Dubuque	IA	Unknown	2-3 minutes	If you ever watched animal planet and seen the deep sea jellyfish glowing in the dark it was like that but shaped like big football.	11/26/14
11/14/14 21:00	Asbury	IA	Formation	15 minutes	A large cluster of 50+ red objects were sighted or 11/14/2014 in Asbury, Iowa.	11/21/14
11/12/14 11:30	Waterloo	IA	Cigar	2 minutes	((HOAX??)) It flew low just above the trees. It a dark grey it moved fast with no sound. It was huge.	11/14/14
11/8/14 21:30	Des Moines	IA	Unknown	3 minutes	Driving along I-80 west bound and saw about 7-9 bright red lights floating in the sky at about the height that a helicopter would fly.	11/14/14
11/8/14 21:30	Urbandale	IA	Sphere	20 seconds	3 glowing orange orbs floated above the interstate at a low level. Moving very slowly. Sky was clear and they were very distinct.	11/14/14
11/4/14 23:45	Urbandale	IA	Triangle	2 seconds	Light-weight triangle with organized lights flys low altitude over Urbandale, IA.	11/6/14
10/28/14 22:00	Urbandale	IA	Triangle	2 minutes	Faint boomerang object with no sound, no lights gliding through the sky at a high rate of speed.	11/6/14
10/21/14 22:25	Mason City	IA	Fireball	5-7 minutes	At around 22:25 my wife and I are getting I the car to go to work when we saw an orange fireball in the west sky traveling g from south	11/6/14
10/21/14 20:15	Ames	IA	Light	30 minutes	Bright red and orange lights and rapid chaotic movement.	11/6/14
10/21/14 00:10	Ankeny	IA	Triangle	05 seconds	Amber lit triangle passes above Ankeny,IA.	11/6/14
10/18/14 23:00	Marion	IA	Light	2-5 minutes	Orange/white spheres seen by nurse and other neighbors hovering	11/6/14
10/9/14 21:00	Cedar Falls	IA	Triangle	>15 minutes	Possible UFO Sighting in Iowa, October 9, 2014.	10/10/14
10/8/14 21:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Disk	~1 minute	Fast flying UFO.	10/10/14
10/8/14 18:58	Hedrick	IA	Unknown	6 minutes	Light.	10/10/14
10/8/14 05:21	Chariton	IA	Cigar	7-8 seconds	Cigar shaped object, with three white-ish then blue-ish lights in the back, moving from W to SE for 7-8 sec.	10/10/14
10/5/14 14:30	Ames	IA	Circle	5 minutes	Saw a silver circle go back and forth in the distance. That it was a plane but there was no jetstream. Would go across left and disappe	10/10/14
9/21/14 21:30	Iowa City	IA	Light	3 minutes	Pulsing orange yellow light moving in a straight line. thought it must be a helicopter, but no sound. It abruptly changed directions	9/25/14
9/12/14 03:08	Montrose	IA	Other	3-5 minutes	Bow Tie shaped craft near Montrose, Iowa.	9/25/14
9/7/14 23:31	Cedar Rapids	IA	Other	1 minute	Boomerang/cresent crescent shape object absorbs dense white cloud in seconds in a blue sky	9/10/14
9/4/14 22:15	Melbourne	IA	Oval	10 seconds	Orange oval.	9/5/14
9/4/14 21:11	Iowa City	IA	Light	1 hour	Red white and blue strobing; far away. I thought I was watching an exploding star. ((NUFORC Note: "Twinkling" star? PD))	9/5/14
8/31/14 21:30	Sabula	IA	Chevron	3 minutes	Sabula, Iowa, chevron shaped craft.	9/5/14
8/31/14 20:50	Bettendorf	IA	Circle	10 seconds	Large round red-orange glowing or burning object, shooting very fast through the sky going north, bigger than a plane & faster.	9/5/14
8/29/14 23:52	Des Moines	IA	Circle	15 minutes	Three white shaped circles. Motion was circular. One would disappear and reappear.	8/31/14
8/27/14 05:15	North Liberty	IA	Diamond	1 minute	Square, didn't move, low flying, solid.	8/29/14
8/26/14 22:00	Bettendorf	IA	Triangle	5 seconds	At first I thought it was a shooting star. Then the colors changed and I noticed it wasn't falling but rising. It stopped.	8/29/14
8/8/14 03:30	North Liberty	IA	Circle	00:45	2 round, very large objects traveling at alarming speed through cloud ceiling.	8/22/14
7/26/14 01:00	Sumner	IA	Fireball	2-4 minutes	Fireball changing speed and direction witnessed by two near Sumner, IA. Second sighting at this location.	8/1/14
7/21/14 22:54	West Des Moines	IA	Fireball	.45	Orange burning ball traveling north. At one time the ball shot eastbound then continued northbound.	7/26/14
7/4/14 22:00	Dubuque	IA	Fireball	1 minute	Fireball shot across the sky with a Northern trajectory.	7/11/14
7/4/14 22:00	West Branch	IA	Cylinder	6 minutes	3 red lights 1 bright white one and 1 dim white one.	7/5/14
7/4/14 21:30	Des Moines	IA	Light	15 seconds	Me, my wife, and another couple, as well as our small children were waiting for a fireworks display on the 4th of July. The night sky w	7/20/14
7/1/14 23:00	Waterloo	IA	Fireball	5-10 minutes	Orange circles that appeared within, I think, the other.	9/6/19
6/20/14 21:25	Cedar Rapids	IA	Chevron	2 minutes	Chevron shape with red and green lights flying in odd patterns.	6/24/14
6/19/14 22:00	Lenox	IA		2 minutes	Disappmall orange ball of light flying from West 2 south east.very slow movingthen simply disappearing	6/20/14
6/14/14 22:30	West Branch	IA	Sphere	<5 minutes	While walking my dogs at approx. 10:30pm N of town, a bright red sphere came from the E heading west.......as it got closer the br	6/20/14
6/14/14 13:50	Des Moines	IA	Disk	1 minute	Large silent dark object in sky producing strange cloud behaviour.	6/20/14
6/6/14 21:45	Ankeny	IA	Light	2-3 minutes	A single, bright orange light moving from west to east changing speed, then turning north and vanishing.	6/13/14
6/6/14 03:25	Waterloo	IA	Circle	2-3 minutes	One small, white ball of light. No noise. Moved slowly across the sky, roughly 75-100 yards above a 3rd floor apartment balcony. Moved	6/6/14
6/2/14 22:25	North Liberty	IA	Fireball	1 minute	Red/Orange fireball craft over North Liberty, IA.	6/4/14
5/31/14 22:36	Polk City	IA	Circle	2 minutes	Fireball UFO seen over Big Creek in Polk City, Iowa.	6/4/14
5/26/14 01:08	Cedar Rapids	IA	Unknown	00:02	Red-orange light over Cedar Rapids, Iowa, under partly cloudy sky, moving from west to north.	6/4/14
5/24/14 21:30	Mason City	IA	Oval	10 minutes	Hovered from east stopped went north 1..then 3 minute 2. and 3rd one 3 minutes saw me..oval fire color.	6/4/14
5/17/14 00:00	Dubuque	IA	Disk	hiking	To quiet to be any kind of airplane, or helicopter, for being so close to us.	6/4/14
5/13/14 22:58	Altoona	IA	Fireball	10 seconds	Orange-red fireball streaking across the night sky faster than an airplane.	6/4/14
5/11/14 20:30	Muscatine	IA	Sphere	5 minutes	Here is our descriptions: red-orange looking big sphere with smaller.	6/4/14
4/25/14 22:20	Cedar Falls	IA	Light	2-3 minutes	Amber light.	5/2/14
4/12/14 21:21	Cedar Rapids	IA	Disk	5 minutes	White/blue/green object and orange objects flying fast and changing direction too quickly.	4/18/14
4/12/14 21:21	Cedar Rapids	IA	Circle	5 minutes	Two crafts spotted above Cedar Rapids.	4/18/14
4/10/14 21:30	Burlington	IA	Light	15-20 seconds	Seen a bright light that seemed to be above tree top or low in the sky moving from north to south slow then it just disappeared.	6/4/14
4/7/14 21:05	Iowa City Hwy 218 north, I-380 north, Cedar Rapids)	IA	Other	50 minutes	Three objects seen initially, two observed while travelling north, and one low and hovering craft was observed east of my apt. bldg.	4/11/14
4/3/14 20:28	Dubuque	IA	Circle	2 minutes	Round object moving slowly across sky and goes opposite direction in a second. ((NUFORC Note: Model airplane?? PD))	4/11/14
3/30/14 10:30	Cedar Falls	IA	Triangle	15-30 seconds	Low-flying, brisk moving, silent, boomerang/triangular shaped set of lights in a number of approximately 10-20 total lights.	4/4/14
3/29/14 20:35	Decorah	IA	Sphere	1 minute	Two amber colored orbs moving together.	4/4/14
3/29/14 10:50	Des Moines	IA	Chevron	5 seconds	5 orange lights in a chevron shape	4/4/14
3/28/14 18:30	Riverside	IA	Fireball	10 seconds	Fireball seen in rual Riverside Iowa	4/4/14
3/15/14 22:00	Ankeny	IA	Cone	10 minutes	White spherical flying object seen flying East at a steady fast pace.	7/26/14
3/11/14 20:36	Des Moines	IA	Disk	33 seconds	Disc shaped object flashing red and blue lights.	3/18/14
3/10/14 04:00	Ainsworth	IA	Triangle	3 minutes	TRIANGLE CRAFT SEEN AGAIN IN AINSWORTH!	3/18/14
2/9/14 19:37	Clinton	IA	Circle	7 seconds	I was walking downtown. The sky was riddle with shinny stars,as I was walking ,I had been looking at the ground. In the back of my mi	2/14/14
1/13/14 18:30	Boone	IA	Triangle	4 minutes	Saw in S sky over town bright light thought was air craft lights turnd to blue and red dimmed. stoped at trafic light observed c	1/16/14
1/13/14 18:00	Sioux City	IA	Circle	2 minutes	4 bright orange balls of light moving silently through the sky - about the height a helicopter would fly.	1/24/14
1/2/14 19:05	Des Moines	IA	Unknown	5-7 seconds	In Des Moines Iowa white/red light, shot up like a firework, stopped, then zoomed away.	1/10/14
12/18/13 21:45	Ames	IA	Changing	3 minutes	3 lighted, circular objects flying over city on a clear night, 1 appears to expand and descends to outskirts of town.	12/23/13
12/18/13 04:00	Ainsworth	IA	Triangle	3 minutes	TRIANGLE OBJECTS HOVERING IN CORNFIELD.	12/23/13
11/30/13 20:00	Arlington	IA	Unknown	1.5-2 minutes	Bright orange light seen traveling NW to SE by 2 civilians in NE Iowa.	12/2/13
11/28/13 21:25	Humboldt	IA	Formation	1 minute	Orange lights in a spread formation.	12/2/13
11/17/13 01:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	Circle	at night	November 17 12:55 to 1:30am i was up my boyfriend was asleep and i cant sleep and i decide to go outside have a fresh air and some rea	11/20/13
11/17/13 00:00	Des Moines	IA	Sphere	2 minutes	Large red/orange sphere seen above Des Moines, Ia.	11/20/13
11/16/13 20:30	West Des Moines	IA	Light	3 minutes	Eight to ten stationary orange lights over West Des Moines, IA	11/20/13
11/16/13 20:25	West Des Moines	IA	Formation	1 minute	10 red orb/lights ranging across the entire northern sky traveling at the same speed and vanishing within 15 seconds.	11/20/13
11/16/13 09:45	Ames	IA	Circle	45 minutes	Green, red, and white lights f rom object hovering in the sky.	11/20/13
11/15/13 21:34	Des Moines	IA	Light	2 minutes	20+ flying objects in Des Moines Iowa.	11/20/13
11/15/13 21:20	Des Moines	IA	Light	5 minutes	30-40 glowing, orange lights drifted across the sky, very low, over Des Moines, not losing altitude until they passed from view.	11/20/13
11/15/13 18:00	Waterloo	IA	Other	10-15 seconds	Half disc like shape with a pale green glow that had movement I've never seen before.	2/21/14
11/11/13 23:56	Iowa city	IA	Diamond	Ongoing	It's way up and just hanging there blue red and flashing, been in about the same place for 10 minutes.	11/20/13
11/10/13 00:15	Carter Lake	IA	Triangle	4 seconds	Transparent triangle object heading southeast.	11/11/13
10/28/13 04:00	Lake City	IA	Light	1 hour	odd moving light in the sky	11/11/13
10/25/13 22:15	Waukee	IA	Circle	7 minutes	Multiple bright yellow-red circular lights sighted travelling SW to NE over Waukee towards Des Moines.	11/11/13
10/25/13 20:00	Des Moines	IA	Triangle	8-10 seconds	Large low-flying craft with orb like lights in a cross shape.	11/11/13
10/24/13 22:40	Waterloo	IA	Triangle	1 minutes	Triangular aircraft with yellow and red lights.	11/11/13
10/13/13 23:30	Sheldon	IA	Circle	5 minutes	Ashton, Iowa sighting.	10/23/13
10/13/13 18:57	Council Bluffs	IA	Light	8 minutes	Three white orange lights in the Western sky that formed a triangle then moved into a line before disappearing.	10/14/13
10/13/13 18:57	Council Bluffs	IA	Formation	8 minutes	3 bright white amber lights forming a perfect triangle and moving into an arch without a vapor trail.	10/14/13
10/11/13 06:13	Ankeny	IA	Circle	2 minutes	Two slow moving star-like objects suddenly accelerated to light speed heading towards Jupiter	10/14/13
10/1/13 22:30	Waterloo	IA	Triangle	1 minute	My girlfriend and I witnessed a bright orange triangular light in the sky.	10/3/13
9/26/13 19:00	Davenport	IA	Light	10 minutes	Western sky, bright light contrails under it then under contrails was another bright oval light moving only vertical in the sky!	9/30/13
9/23/13 01:00	Waterloo	IA	Other	2 hours	Moving lights in the sky seen in different variations.	9/30/13
9/21/13 22:00	Des Moines	IA	Light	10 minutes	Orange/red lights hover over Des Moines.	9/30/13
9/21/13 19:30	Bettendorf	IA	Circle	30 minutes	No sound just bright light and movement faster than planes	9/30/13
9/14/13 14:00	Hiawatha	IA	Light	20 minutes	Extremely intense, bright light moving very slowly across the sky at a very high altitude.	9/30/13
8/30/13 22:30	Des Moines	IA	Light	5 minutes	3 glowing red lights made formations and disappeared.	9/9/13
8/27/13 21:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	1-3 minutes	Lights resembled stars but moved in opposite directions then in circles..	8/30/13
8/24/13 22:00	Des Moines	IA	Formation	2 to 5 minutes	Orange Red Light Formations Over Des Moines, Iowa on August 24, 2013 at 10:00 p.m.	8/30/13
8/23/13 22:09	Davenport	IA	Sphere	3 minutes	Fiery orbs/ spheres seen on two seperate occasions.	8/30/13
8/22/13 10:00	Fort Dodge	IA	Circle	10 seconds	Bright white light disapeered away from the earth.	8/30/13
8/16/13 22:30	Dubuque	IA	Oval	10 minutes	Beautiful orange lights that moved without any sound	8/30/13
8/13/13 23:30	Fort Dodge	IA	Cigar	Few seconds	A Glimpse of Rarity.	8/30/13
8/13/13 23:00	Dubuque	IA	Triangle	10 seconds	Lights hovering next to Dubuque bridge.	9/10/14
8/5/13 21:18	Dike	IA	Light	4 seconds	Blue lights of large size moving across the sky. larger than any meteorite that I've ever seen and very clearly blue in color moving fr	8/30/13
8/3/13 23:35	Cedar Rapids	IA	Cylinder	1 minute	Flattened cylinder with blue glow	8/30/13
8/3/13 21:30	Dyersville	IA	Circle	15 minutes	This blue lighted craft, with a bit of orange and it was over dyersville iowa on Aug 3rd 2013, hovered for a while at about 9:30pm, slo	8/30/13
8/2/13 20:45	Cresco	IA	Light	30 minutes	Mysterious light in the Western sky. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))	9/9/13
8/1/13 18:00	Winterset	IA	Formation	unknown	3 lights in perfect formation	12/23/13
7/28/13 22:35	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	30 seconds	Slow white glow across sky in 20 seconds	8/30/13
7/26/13 20:00	Key West, Dubuque	IA	Light	10 seconds	I was driving home from a friends waiting at a traffic light and saw a rusted orange ball move at high speeds in an irrational way.	3/18/14
7/24/13 21:35	Toledo	IA	Light	15	Lights circling over Iowa.	8/30/13
7/17/13 22:45	Iowa Cuty	IA	Triangle	10:00	This was not a human craft!	7/22/13
7/14/13 23:00	Davenport	IA	Fireball	10 minutes	Fleet of "fireball" type ufo seen!	7/22/13
7/14/13 22:15	Mason City	IA	Fireball	3 minutes	Slow moving orange/fireball.	8/30/13
7/11/13 23:00	Clarksville	IA	Other	4 minutes	I see them nightly and they aren't that low but some higher and move fast and all over the place some blink colors and some move slow a	7/14/13
7/11/13 20:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Triangle	1 minute	3 orange lights at dusk, moving in sync just over NW horizon, top two faded before bottom one.	7/14/13
7/6/13 11:00	Des Moines	IA	Triangle	not seen; only photograph	3 lights formed a triangle over a field in daylight	7/14/13
7/5/13 21:50	Bettendorf	IA	Circle	2 minutes	Driving on 53rd st, Bettendorf Iowa headed east saw 2 orange lights in the sky. One was hovering lower than the other, diagonally. Me &	7/14/13
7/4/13 23:15	Decorah	IA	Sphere	20-30 seconds	Amber colored object moved slowly and steadily across the sky for 20-30 seconds.	7/14/13
6/29/13 20:38	Stanton	IA	Sphere	90 seconds	Solid Sphere observed over Viking Lake State Park.	7/3/13
6/22/13 23:00	Creston	IA	Light	10 seconds	Large white light moving quickly west to east	7/3/13
6/19/13 23:49	Stuart	IA	Light	4 seconds	Green moving light.	7/3/13
6/17/13 23:00	Waterloo	IA	Fireball	5 minutes	Glowing orange, orb like, fireball	7/3/13
6/16/13 22:30	Sioux City	IA	Triangle	10-15 minutes	A triangular UFO was found hovering in the sky and remained there for several minutes until flying out of sight.	7/3/13
6/11/13 02:15	Des Moines	IA	Light	1 minute	Bright white turning red/orange close to ground then disapearing by des moines airport.	7/3/13
6/8/13 22:00		IA	Cigar	2 minutes	Red white and green	7/3/13
6/1/13 09:30	Palo	IA	Unknown	on-going	Bright yellow, red, and green lights, weirdly changed to all white, these lights were hovering in mid-air.	6/2/13
5/11/13 22:00	Ainsworth	IA	Triangle	2 minutes	2 Triangle shaped crafts with red lights over Ainsworth, Iowa.	6/2/13
5/10/13 21:09	Des Moines	IA	Triangle	3-5 minutes	Triangular UFO seen by family of 6 just south of Des Moines on I35.	5/15/13
5/10/13 19:00	Boone	IA	Light	Few seconds	I was by Fareway when I saw a weird light in the sky. It didn't look like an airplane, it just looked like a flash of light.	7/23/15
5/6/13 23:00	Cresco	IA	Triangle	5 seconds	Silent and very fast triangular craft that was out of sight within a few seconds.	5/15/13
5/3/13 20:00	Hiawatha/Cedar Rapids	IA	Triangle	5 hours	Multi-colored triangle, seen on multiple occasions and by multiple witnesses, this is not isolated to one day.	6/2/13
5/2/13 02:15	Fort Dodge	IA	Flash	5-10 minutes	Flashes after thundersnow, coworker is missing.	5/15/13
4/28/13 23:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	7-10 seconds	Two "lights" from space circling and "dancing" around each other as if playing.	7/3/13
4/25/13 02:00	Mondamin	IA	Circle	1 minute	Bright orange object hovered over timber then took off at high rate of speed.	5/15/13
4/20/13 03:20	Allendorf	IA	Light	30 minutes	Bright light in Iowa sky	5/15/13
4/13/13 05:25	Webster City	IA	Light	1-2 minutes	Non-moving, non blinking, yellow cluster of lights hovering 20 degrees above horizon, Hamilton Co., Iowa, 4/13/13, for couple of min.	5/15/13
3/29/13 03:00	Marion	IA	Changing	5 minutes	Electric blue lights w/red triangle in center, and 2 smaller ones,	4/12/13
3/29/13 00:00	Marion	IA	Changing	5 minutes	Lights of blue, like electricity, red triangle in center! 1 blue/1 white	5/15/13
3/20/13 04:00	Shelby	IA	Unknown	5 minutes	03/15/2013 around Shelby Ia.(near) 04:00 Blinking crossbuck lights and plane disappear	8/30/13
3/14/13 21:00	Arcadia	IA	Fireball	3 minutes	Bright Orange Fireball near Arcadia, Iowa	8/30/13
2/12/13 21:25	Knoxville	IA	Triangle	10 minutes	3 medium bright lights in a triangular shape. Large circular light in center lit up and object moved, seemingly instantaneously to the	2/18/13
1/15/13 07:00	Fort Dodge	IA	Triangle	5 minutes	I was watching out my window as I usually do because I see them every night. We werewatching four bright lights apeard hot pink and we.	2/4/13
1/9/13 17:20	Wheatland	IA	Light	7 minutes	Large bright multicolored twinkling light just above western horizon.	2/4/13
1/9/13 17:20	Wheatland	IA	Light	7 minutes	Observed large multicolored twinking light hovering in western horizon which disappeared after 7 minutes.	2/4/13
1/6/13 18:35	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	~10 minutes	5 bright orange lights moving together, hovering, then disappearing quickly - no sound.	2/4/13
1/5/13 02:17	Cedar Rapids	IA	Circle	8 minutes	2 star like lights traveling slowly across cedar rapids sky.	2/4/13
1/4/13 03:30	Eldridge	IA	Unknown	10-15 minutes	Craft hovered for approx 10-15 mins.; seemed to.change shape occasionally and also color from, green, red, blue, and white.	2/4/13
12/29/12 19:09	Waterloo	IA	Sphere	3 minutes	3 seen, 1 Orange globe coming from north, made sharp turn to east. Fast and quiet.	2/4/13
12/27/12 00:00	Iowa City	IA	Other	Not Sure	Two UFO sightings and encounters right by my own house. I think They were interested in me.	1/20/16
12/26/12 08:00	Hiawatha	IA	Oval	1:00	Oval flashing in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Sirius?? PD))	2/4/13
12/21/12 02:15	Cedar Rapids	IA	Unknown	A while	Lights on southern horizon	12/21/12
12/20/12 06:45	Legrand	IA	Flash	10-15 minutes	The bluish green flashes of light at the end of this snow storm were kinda freaky.	12/21/12
12/20/12 03:45	Cedar Rapids	IA			Adult female witnesses the blue flash.	12/21/12
12/20/12 03:15	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	20 minutes	Astonishing Sound and Changing Lights Seen North Of Cedar rapids, Iowa on December 20th 3:15 A.M. +	12/20/12
12/20/12 03:00	Cedar Rapids	IA			I just read an article about lights seen in Cedar Rapids Iowa at 3:00am of the 21st. http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Astonishing-Lights-	12/21/12
12/18/12 19:30	Des Moines	IA	Light	6 minutes	Unusual flight pattern of a squadron of aircraft that defy gravity and G-force manuverability.	12/20/12
12/10/12 18:35	Des Moines	IA	Circle	3 minutes	White orb dissapears into night.	12/20/12
12/8/12 06:15	Des Moines	IA	Light	1-2 seconds	Fast moving silver light	12/20/12
12/7/12 18:40	Eldridge	IA	Light	2-4 minutes	Five orange lights, like stars in the cloudy sky, hovered motionless over a small city in Iowa.	12/20/12
11/30/12 18:15	Kelley	IA	Diamond	2 minutes	I was driving west of Kelley, Iowa. The first sight was an extremely bright light fairly low in the sky. I was trying to de	12/20/12
11/15/12 19:00	Fort Dodge	IA	Other	Two nights	Multiple glowing, pulsating orbs move like jellyfish and one metallic cigar shape ufo just over my garage, two nights.	12/20/12
11/10/12 17:50	Eldridge	IA	Circle	1 minute	Bright orange/yellow with red trim circular fast moving quiet light.	11/19/12
11/8/12 21:30	Paton	IA	Formation	over a hour	A opening in space that formed a hole from which I could see many flying objects keeping the hole open.	11/19/12
11/6/12 21:00	DeWitt	IA	Unknown	5 minutes	Very loud, invisible, and flying very low	11/19/12
11/6/12 20:35	Evansdale	IA	Unknown	2 minutes	Slow moving object with numerous large lights all synchronized (Honey Comb in shape),travels over interstate	11/19/12
11/3/12 23:45	Des Moines	IA	Fireball	10 minutes	3 Bright Red Lights in a Triangle Formation	11/19/12
11/3/12 22:00	Mount Vernon	IA	Triangle	3-5 minutes	My husband and I witnessed a large, very bright, amber colored light appear suddenly in the eastern sky. After hovering for a few momen	11/4/12
11/3/12 20:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Oval	20	I had just gotten off my computer giving a testimony in the name of jesus christ, to someone who needed it was on the wrong path.	11/19/12
11/2/12 23:00	North Liberty	IA	Light	30 minutes	Four white lights swirled in arcs across the sky, then were absorbed into a red/blue orb which sped away.	11/4/12
11/2/12 21:00	Estherville	IA	Triangle	10 minutes	Orange lights in triangle formation over Emmet County, Iowa on 11/2/12.	11/4/12
10/30/12 00:00	Burlington	IA	Circle	20 minutes	Saw big bright flickering amber light/object flying upwards that disappeared and reappeared with several planes sweeping the sky.	11/4/12
10/16/12 20:00	Fayette	IA	Teardrop	5 minutes	Teardrop craft 1000 ft. from house in country, turned Amber before disappearing.	1/7/15
10/16/12 15:30	Burlington	IA	Triangle	5-6 minutes	10-23-2012 Burlington Iowa multiple traingular and saucer shape ufos seen over Mississippi river on 10-16-2012 at 15:30	10/30/12
10/16/12 02:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Triangle	30 minutes	An object in the sky moved gradually, hovering at times, flashing red, blue and white lights for 30 + minutes, 2 nights in a row.	10/30/12
10/9/12	Dubuque	IA	Diamond	5 minutes	Driving hwy 61 close to dubuque airport saw 2 diamond shaped very bright blinking lights that moved and then disappeared	10/30/12
10/2/12 21:15	Clinton	IA	Circle	10 minutes	Non flashing orange lights going westward across Clinton Iowa making no sound	10/30/12
10/2/12 13:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Circle	10 minutes	I was watching a hawk fly around and a round shinny object caught my eye. it was thousands of feet up. It was traveling north to south	10/30/12
9/27/12 22:30	Keokuk	IA	Other	2 seconds	See thru small aircraft looking object, flying slow and low with no noise or lights	11/19/12
9/27/12 15:30	Badger (S. of; N. of Fort Dodge)	IA	Cylinder	10 minutes	One rotating blade (but rotated very, very slow). No sound.	10/30/12
9/26/12 20:00	Vinton	IA	Circle	2-3 minutes	I seen a circle object that was red, it shimmered like a fire. It was somewhat low in the sky and flew towards the west side of town an	10/30/12
9/25/12 06:24	Fonda	IA	Unknown	4 minutes	White light object rises from tree line and elevates (4 minutes) and disappears. ((NUFORC Note: Bright planet in the E sky? PD))	10/30/12
9/18/12 07:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	Oval	10 minutes	Shiny oval objects no wings and no sound	9/24/12
9/8/12 22:00	Des Moines	IA	Light	3 minutes	2 Bright Orbs in the Eastern Sky moving fast and irregular.	9/24/12
8/27/12 04:36	Storm Lake	IA	Formation	12:00 am	Huge formation with many smaller formations. Some brighter than others.	9/24/12
8/26/12 23:00	Bondurant	IA	Light	9:30ish	I was laying in bed. I saw 3 lights in the sky. They seemed to be moving into a shape. One kept cycling around. As I went to take a pic	9/24/12
8/23/12 22:05	Waterloo	IA	Fireball	30 seconds	One Fireball like object with an oscillating halo preceding it appeared at 9;05pm moving from South to North and another following the	9/24/12
8/18/12 20:00	LeClaire	IA	Rectangle	5 minutes	Flickering red light that lasted for about five minutes, then the craft disappeared.	8/19/12
8/15/12	Council Bluffs	IA	Chevron	2 minutes	No sound, no trail, fast to appear slow to leave.	1/7/15
8/13/12 21:00	Cedar Falls	IA	Formation	5 minutes	We were outside in a swing viewing the south sky, 4 lights appeared in a zig zag pattern hovering for 5 minutes or so. The lights of a	8/19/12
8/11/12 20:46	Altoona	IA	Triangle	13 minutes	Triangular shaped hovering craft with multi-colored flashing lights - seen for over 12 minutes.	8/19/12
8/11/12 20:30	Altoona	IA		30 minutes	Lights spinning in circles and flashing morse code like signals.	8/19/12
8/7/12 22:35	Iowa City	IA	Changing	1 hour	Ufo spotted by IC Eastern airport. Round sphered shaped with 3 three lights view looked triangle. Slowly gliding came at car	8/19/12
8/6/12 22:30	Bloomfield	IA	Fireball	seconds	Large ball of light sighted above rooftops.	8/19/12
8/5/12 05:55	Decorah	IA	Triangle	1-2 minutes	Super large boomerang solid lighted object moving very fast.	8/5/12
8/5/12 05:00	Des Moines	IA	Light	hour or so	Several moving lights over des moines, IA, blended in sky as if they were stars til they started moving.((NUFORC Note: Planets?? PD))	8/5/12
8/2/12 23:18	Van Horne	IA	Disk	2 minutes	Disk-shaped object seen above treeline	8/5/12
7/29/12 11:00	Winterset	IA	Fireball	5 minutes	Sighting was seen by several witnesess. Appeared to be just dots in the sky bit as I drove closer to themthey appeared to be like balls	8/5/12
7/28/12 23:45	Cummings	IA	Light	30 minutes	4 white lights circling CCW coming together as 1 light separating and repeating pattern. ((NUFORC Note: Advertising lights? PD))	8/5/12
7/27/12 04:07	Des Moines	IA	Fireball	5 seconds	Green and yellow fall in an arc shape across the sky. very bright	8/5/12
7/23/12 23:55	Adel	IA	Flash	1 minute	Pulsating light in the northern sky that flew in a non aircraft way.	8/5/12
7/19/12 00:07	Council Bluffs	IA	Triangle	3 minutes	Triangle Ufo, with 3 lights on edges and 2 in center over council bluffs. Near the community college.	8/5/12
7/16/12 23:40	Mt. Pleasant	IA	Fireball	3 minutes	Large orange/red fireball appears and travels in sky above and quickly disappears.	8/5/12
7/16/12 04:32	Ottumwa	IA	Light		I have seen three lights in northeast sky one really bright one bright and one that looks like a star going out you can see it every ni	8/5/12
7/13/12 02:26	Marshalltown	IA	Changing	2 minutes	Unexplained reddish orange light over Marshalltown IA	8/5/12
7/13/12 01:24	Des Moines	IA	Unknown	10 minutes	Floating white light with dim blinking light still in the sky with no sound.	8/5/12
7/10/12 22:00	Bevington	IA	Triangle	1 minute	Triangular object with yellow lights hovering in air, along the road	8/5/12
6/27/12 23:30	Iowa City	IA	Fireball	~5 min	Hovering fireball north of Iowa City	7/4/12
6/26/12 23:45	Eldridge (towards; going North on Utica Ridge Road)	IA	Triangle	5 minutes	Triangle UFO over farmhouse and trees on Utica Ridge Road, towards Eldridge, Iowa	9/24/12
6/26/12 10:00	West Des Moines	IA	Light	2 minutes	orange glowing object in clear black sky amazing speed	7/4/12
6/24/12 12:45	Bondurant	IA	Cigar	4 minutes	Large cigar shaped object with lights in sequence from left to right then right to left traveling at high speed in a straight line	7/4/12
6/21/12 23:05	Davenport	IA	Fireball	90 seconds	Two witness one amber fireball track south over the Quad Cities	7/4/12
6/19/12 22:45	Bettendorf	IA	Light	45 seconds	Distant white "stars" moving across the sky typically S of the big dipper. ((NUFORC Note: Overflight of satellites, we wonder? PD) )	6/20/12
6/16/12 23:27	Des Moines	IA	Circle	35 seconds	3 circular orange reddish lights in the shape of a triangle seen in Des Moines, IA near the State Capitol building.	6/20/12
6/15/12 02:00	Evansdale	IA	Triangle	~2 minutes	Triangle shaped object called by military helicopters.	4/29/16
6/8/12 20:55	Perry	IA	Light	2-3 minutes	Large sphere of light seen going over Perry, Iowa.	6/14/12
6/6/12 06:00	Lemars	IA	Circle	10 seconds	Bright aircraft caught my eye at dawn in the west and flew east. Seemed to be closer than planes usually fly but crossed the horizon at	6/8/12
6/5/12 23:10	Muscatine	IA	Light	3 to 4 minutes	Wandering white light flying north, while three red/white constant lights remained stationary	6/8/12
6/3/12 03:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	5-6 minutes	Dancing BRIGHT BRIGHT white orbs in the night sky.	6/5/12
6/2/12 23:00	Hazelton	IA	Light	15-20 seconds	2 Bright Lights Traveling at the Same Speed and Flight Pattern	6/5/12
6/2/12 21:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Circle	4-5 minutes	Strange Lights Across Cedar Rapids, Iowa Sky on June 2, 2012 @ around 9:15 pm CST	6/5/12
5/26/12 00:00	Mason City	IA	Other	2 to 4 min.	acorn shaped with flames and a ring of white lights on bottom	6/5/12
5/25/12 01:00	Corning	IA	Cigar	15 seconds	I was outside having a beer, and no I was not drunk. I was looking at the stars and saw three what I would describe as pen shaped objec	5/29/12
5/24/12 04:00	Burlington	IA	Light	About a Min.	Two lights seen flying overhead.	5/29/12
5/23/12 03:00	Des Moines	IA	Fireball	60 seconds	While driving east on 80/35 near the Merle hay exit A large cherry red to orange fireball. It moved as though it may land in front of m	5/29/12
5/13/12 21:50	Des Moines	IA	Light	1min	Came out on my deck and before me in the sky were approximately 8-10 orange orbs moving in a SW to NE arc. This grouping was followed b	5/29/12
5/13/12 21:45	Waukee	IA	Unknown	unknown. It is still out	star-like object, high in the night sky, blinking rapidly between red, white, green and possibly blue. ((NUFORC Note: Vega?? PD))	5/29/12
5/8/12 22:30	Clear Lake	IA	Cone	10 minutes	BLUE/GREEN/WHITE Flashing Lights - cone shaped in the Northwestern Sky in Northern Iowa.	5/13/12
5/6/12 15:30	Vinton	IA	Triangle	1-2 minutes	Transparent triangular shaped object	6/14/12
5/4/12 22:35	Cedar Falls	IA	Sphere	30-45 sec.	2 yellow red glowing spheres moved against the wind in irregular motion and changing speeds, one dissappeared and the other flew away,	5/13/12
4/26/12 07:35	Pella	IA	Disk	12 seconds	Ultra-sonic disk	5/13/12
4/24/12 21:45	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	7 minutes	My girlfriend and I just happened to be outside at approximately 9:45pm. We witnessed a bright white light move slowly from the NW sky,	5/13/12
4/20/12 20:45	Mason City	IA	Light	2 min	Observed two steady red lights for about one minute that moved slowly and faded out	5/13/12
4/11/12 21:40	Reinbeck	IA	Light	1 min	Bright lighjt manuevers over Iowa sky.	5/13/12
4/11/12 20:00	Ames	IA	Fireball	30 seconds	A single fireball or ball of light with a slight tail or trail passed in an arc toward the ground.	5/13/12
4/9/12 21:45	Dysart	IA	Light	1 to 2 min.	Lights in the sky over Dysart, Iowa.	4/18/12
4/9/12 21:45	Dysart	IA	Light	1 to 2 minutes	Bright lights in the sky over dysart ia.	4/18/12
4/2/12 21:30	Ames	IA	Light	4 mins	One white with blue light then two more same flight plan over Ames IA.	4/18/12
3/30/12 21:15	Story City	IA	Formation	<10 minutes	Group of 4 red/orange lights, becoming 3 lights then disappearing into darkness of space	5/13/12
3/25/12 00:00	Davenport	IA	Changing	4 hours	Me and my friends just left a restraunt and we were at a stop light about 7:30 pm on march 24th 2012 and every single light shut off fo	4/18/12
3/24/12 08:45	Waterloo	IA	Circle	30-40 seconds	Red ball of fire descending out of the sky and landing	5/13/12
3/18/12 21:30	Iowa City	IA	Fireball	4-5 seconds	3/18/12 9:30 pm, very fast moving orange small ball, zipped from south to north - driving west on I80 just before Iowa City	7/4/12
3/5/12 11:30	Davenport	IA	Oval	5 minutes	Oval, hanging vertically above busy intersection in Davenport, IA at mid day.	3/13/12
3/1/12 20:00	Pleasanton	IA	Other	5-10 minutes	Three of us in our home heard a deep humming sound; two of us went outside to investigate and saw red/orange strobe lights.	3/13/12
2/19/12 19:30	Clinton	IA	Circle	5 mins	Two strange orange lights in the sky, unattached from each other, no sound	3/13/12
2/12/12 21:40	Ankeny	IA	Triangle	30 seconds	Flying triangle really low to ground not making any noise, not an airplane or a helicopter	3/13/12
1/10/12 22:30	Ames (north of)	IA	Flash	3 seconds	Bright blue/white flash north/northwest of Huxley, IA	1/12/12
1/6/12 20:45	Gilmore City	IA	Disk	8:00=8:45	Red/blue flashing disc in se sky. about 65 degrees just sitting there. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Sirius?? PD))	1/12/12
1/3/12 21:00	Council Bluffs	IA	Light	2 hours	Lights moving in a circular motion	1/12/12
12/29/11 20:00	Cedar Falls	IA	Light	10-15 minutes	Bright golden light seen twice on the same road to home.	1/12/12
12/25/11 21:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Fireball	40-50 seconds	I saw a large fireball pass over my house at about 1000 feet --no noise, traveling about 15mph.	1/24/12
12/19/11 01:30	Pella	IA		2-4 sec	While in hot tub,looking east saw object,bar or cigar shaped, traveling north to south it veered off to south east speed like falling	1/12/12
12/17/11 18:00		IA	Other	2 min	Strange ball of light moving slowly across central Iowa.	1/12/12
12/14/11 12:30	Spencer	IA	Sphere	30seconds	Green light ufo	6/20/12
11/14/11 18:05	Lafayette	IA	Light	15 seconds approx.	Stationary High-Magnitude Light Dimming Out	12/12/11
11/5/11 19:00	Muscatine	IA	Light	>15 minutes	Bright orange lights moving slow across the sky.	12/12/11
10/29/11 21:30	Mingo	IA	Circle	2 min	Saw a UFO landing on 10/29/2011	12/12/11
10/20/11 21:15	Muscatine	IA	Light	3 min.	five bright yellow lights leading huge craft	10/25/11
10/15/11 20:05	Muscatine	IA	Triangle	a few minutes	Three bright lights in the sky in the shape of a triangle	10/19/11
10/11/11 19:40	Des Moines	IA	Light	90 seconds	An unexplained, unidentified flying object.	12/12/11
9/30/11 11:36	Ames	IA	Circle	Continued after viewing,	White bright orb, (circular) craft in eastern sky, slow moving, at times still. Much brighter than any star, or planet, silent.	10/10/11
9/10/11 23:20	Sioux City	IA	Light	2-3 minutes	Bright orange lights taking an unusual flight pattern and then disappearing in the same area in the sky.	10/10/11
9/4/11 23:25	West Des Moines	IA	Formation	Unknown	Ten lights in a strange formation moving east over I235	10/10/11
9/4/11 21:32	Waterloo	IA	Circle	50s	4 large orange orbs moving across sky	10/10/11
9/4/11 20:45	Tama	IA	Fireball	1 minute	A fiery Red Orb like ball floated through the sky.	10/10/11
9/2/11 20:45	Des Moines	IA	Unknown	1 minute	Sometime after 8:30, I went home with my mother and after parking in the driveway, I looked up (facing north) as always. Everything se	10/10/11
8/28/11 20:30	Waukee	IA	Other	3 minutes	Bright organge light- goes off and looks atom-shaped.	10/10/11
8/25/11 00:31	Des Moines	IA	Egg	7 sec	Siting looking at the stars was moving fast and steady rusty dark look no lights but had a glow and was heading west it came out of sig	10/10/11
8/23/11 21:25	West Des Moines	IA	Triangle	15 sec	One multi-lighted triangle-shaped UFO sighted over West Des Moines, Iowa at 9:25 PM on 08/23/2011 by two people driving home.	10/10/11
8/17/11 23:20	Waterloo	IA	Circle	30s	5 witnesses observed a very bright light, then the object travel outward, then changed direction for a period of 10 seconds .. then sto	8/21/11
8/3/11 00:14	Ankeny	IA	Formation	20 minutes	Triangle UFOs in formation around the New Highschool	8/7/11
7/30/11 21:10	Dubuque	IA	Light	about 10 mins?	Single bright, moving winking light and … ((NUFORC Note: Possible tumbling rocket/booster?? PD))	8/7/11
7/23/11 22:10	Clive	IA	Oval	1:00	Orange glowing ball moving slow powerd by jet like flame	8/7/11
7/23/11 15:30	Council Bluffs	IA	Triangle	2min	Object over council bluffs ia	8/7/11
7/21/11 11:00	Fairfield	IA	Light	01:00	I am a night sky watcher and I have seen a lot of military maneuvers and a few strange things in this area, but what I saw this evening	4/18/14
7/14/11 02:00	Ankeny	IA	Triangle	3 minutes	TRIANGLE FORMATION LIGHTS OVER CHURCH ANKENY, IOWA	3/18/14
7/10/11 10:06	Bettendorf	IA	Fireball	4 minutes	Saw 8 fireballs floating over Bettendorf high school in a group. After a couple minutes they dispersed. The appeared to fly or "drive"	7/17/11
7/4/11 20:30	West Des Moines	IA	Circle	3 minutes	2 red/orange spheres moving slowly appeared in des moines iowa.	7/17/11
7/3/11 23:40	Waterloo	IA	Light	1 minute	Red light in the sky over Waterloo, IA	7/4/11
6/28/11 20:00	Ames	IA	Light	10 Minutes	While taking my dogs out, I noticed a very bright light in the NW area of the sky, it was moving very slowly and at first I thought it	7/4/11
6/12/11 22:30	Waukee	IA	Circle	10 minutes	Circular ball of light moved very slowly through the sky in a straight line with no flashing lights on it.	6/20/11
6/6/11 22:00	Dubuque	IA	Light	2 minutes	Bright BRIGHT BIG white light w/ 2 smaller lights blinking red and orange	6/12/11
5/29/11 22:00	Davenport	IA	Triangle	2.5 hours	Triangle observed hovering over davenport near regional airport	6/3/11
5/20/11 23:00	Sherrill	IA	Triangle	6 minutes	Couldn't take one this craft shut power off to our and neighbors house all electrical devices also we malfunction i have a fuzzy video	10/14/13
5/17/11 01:30	Sioux City	IA	Triangle	15 seconds (approx.)	Was outside late at night in a slightly drizziling rain when i caught sight of a triangulare object in the sky.	5/29/11
5/16/11 22:15	Davenport	IA	Circle	1 min	Silent moving, dark, circular object with reflective bottom moving over houses in Davenport, IA.	5/29/11
5/5/11 07:00	Mount Vernon	IA	Unknown	unknown	I have a picture.	5/12/11
5/3/11 21:30	Davenport	IA	Egg	10min	Bright Light over Davenport, Iowa.	5/12/11
3/30/11 00:00	Floyd	IA	Disk	30 min	Unusual movement of unusually lit craft over Iowa farm field.	4/3/11
3/21/11 00:55	Des Moines	IA	Light	5 seconds	lights (round shaped) in a v-shaped formation (5-7 in the v formation and one on the left side and another on the right side in front o	3/23/11
3/15/11 13:10	Ruthven	IA	Circle	3 minuets	round shaped object with wing at top	3/23/11
3/14/11 21:00	Des Moines	IA	Other	30 secs	A v shaped formation maybe 20 illuminated dots seen for about 30 seconds and then dissapeared	3/23/11
1/6/11 19:00	Iowa City	IA	Triangle	10 seconds	Triangular aircraft with white and red lights.	1/31/11
1/4/11 17:15	Woodward	IA	Fireball	5 min	Orange/gold lights that seemed to "leap frog" across the north western Iowa sky.	1/31/11
11/22/10 19:40	West Des Moines	IA	Light	a few minutes	2 Bright Lights in Des Moines Iowa	1/5/11
11/10/10 09:00	Belle Plaine	IA	Cigar	1 minute	I was in a field,looked up to the sky and noticed what looked like two all white subway cars hooked together. The object was heading No	1/16/15
11/4/10 07:00	Sioux City	IA	Light	30-45 seconds	3 white lights turn to 1 and wobble in the sky	11/21/10
10/30/10 02:00	Cedar Falls	IA	Light	about 5 minutes	Diagonal line of bending light seen above university from the moon on Hallow's Eve.	1/12/12
10/15/10 22:30	Waterloo	IA	Light	8-10min	Bright orange orb quickly passing close by without sound.	11/21/10
10/12/10 22:30	Waterloo	IA	Light	2-3 minutes	Orange orb came close.	12/23/13
10/5/10 19:00	De Soto	IA	Light	1 hour	5 amazingly bright light objects in bright redish/orange October sunset. in IOWA.	11/21/10
10/3/10 23:00	Dubuque	IA	Unknown	1 hr	ok i didnt see it but i heard about it and was hoping you could find out more a friend told me that lastnight her friend seen a craft a	11/21/10
10/3/10 21:00	Dubuque	IA	Other	2 hours	northeast sky colors flickering	11/21/10
10/2/10 02:12	Des Moines	IA	Diamond	25 minutes	Single light multiplied then came together as a diamond then became one and disappeared.	11/21/10
9/30/10 13:05	Cedar Rapids	IA	Triangle	about half a second	Flying object in the background of our video in video class flies 100 yards in less than 1/2 a second	11/21/10
9/29/10 23:00	Sioux City	IA	Other	8 seconds	9-12 white lights glide from north to south across morningside sky	11/21/10
9/26/10 19:00	Audubon	IA	Oval	3 hours	Three different bright lights that did not move, yet when seen with binoculars had red blinking lights. ((NUFORC Note: Stars?? PD))	11/21/10
9/25/10 03:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Circle	2-3 minutes	UFO over Cedar Rapids	11/21/10
9/7/10 02:30	Mt. Pleasant	IA	Triangle	120	Triangular craft moving very fast in odd directions.	11/21/10
8/28/10 11:45	Des Moines	IA	Light	Aprox. 10 minutes	Solid and silent red light flying over Des Moines, Iowa.	11/21/10
8/27/10 21:30	Hiawatha	IA	Circle		we saw a circle aircraft moving west at 20 mph fly only 200 yards off the ground.	8/30/10
8/10/10 00:00	Washington (west of)	IA	Diamond	30-45 mins didnt get to w	Hovering lights in western sky, Washington, Iowa	8/24/10
8/8/10 21:00	Dubuque	IA	Light	felt like 10 mins but tim	Two Orange Spheres moments apart, followed by smaller moving star like object, which became two lights moving together from another dir	8/24/10
7/31/10 22:00	Waukon (15 miles SE of)	IA	Unknown	5 mins	Triangular/V-shape UFO spotted over North East Iowa.	8/24/10
7/19/10 22:20	Merrill	IA	Diamond	2 minitues	Red/Bluish colored lights over Merrill Rural Areas.	7/28/10
7/17/10 23:00	Boone	IA	Disk	30 min	Flying obects in ia sky	7/19/10
7/16/10 22:12	Carter Lake	IA	Sphere	5 minutes	One brilliantly illuminating ball of light that float over our heads and shorty afterwards, vanished before our eyes.	8/24/10
7/7/10 22:10	Davenport	IA	Changing	10 seconds	A green heat light traveling east to west.	7/10/10
7/4/10 22:15	Polk City	IA	Disk	10 Minutes	Unusual light in sky 7/4/10 from Saylorville campground.	7/19/10
7/4/10 21:55	Polk City	IA	Other	5 mins total	I was walking my dog before the 10:00 news, looked up at the sky and saw an orange glowing object.	7/10/10
7/3/10 22:00	Bonaparte	IA	Fireball	5 to 15 min.	On july 3 2010 around 22:00 just before the fireworks show a orange and red orb just appeared over the des moines river and floated sou	7/10/10
7/2/10 18:00	Audubon	IA	Oval	4 Hours	White bright light changing into an orange red light that flew back and forth, and then was gone.	7/6/10
6/30/10 23:45	Sioux City	IA	Light	15 seconds	Strange disappearing/re-appearing object over Sioux city	7/6/10
6/24/10 22:15	Waukee	IA	Light	120seconds	Bright Zig-Zagging Light over Des Moines, 6/24/10	7/6/10
6/17/10 20:00	Perry	IA	Cylinder	15 - 20 min	36 bright objects flying across the sky in a short amount of time	6/23/10
6/11/10 22:15	Bettendorf	IA	Triangle	1:30	three points of white light (triangle shape), no sound and very low directly above my house moving at maybe 70-80 knots	6/23/10
5/31/10 15:00	Campo	IA	Disk	unknown	Campo Colorado tornado photo	7/6/10
5/29/10 22:44	Iowa City	IA	Changing	:30	Iowa city group of lights	6/3/10
5/29/10 22:30	Fonda	IA	Sphere	Every Night	The object changes colors and moves. ((NUFORC Note: Probably a celestial body. PD))	6/3/10
5/13/10 22:30	Burlington	IA	Light	2:00	An object flew over my house it looked like a regular star but it was moving very fast no flashing lights	6/3/10
5/12/10 21:00	Keokuk	IA	Light	10 sec	We were just sitting there at my brothers right after dark. When we saw what look like a light larger then any star in the sky. It appe	5/12/11
5/7/10 22:20	Woodward	IA	Triangle	25 mins	Triangle shaped object hovering for extended period of time and then finally vanished.	5/12/10
4/14/10 22:15	Hiawatha	IA	Fireball	10 seconds	Bright turqouise fireball rapidly descending at 15-20 degrees erupts into bright light and dissapears.	5/12/10
4/14/10 22:12	Iowa (unspecified location)	IA	Unknown	30 seconds	Bright green light faded then turned to orange before disappearing. ((NUFORC Note: Location of witness not specified. PD))	5/12/10
4/14/10 22:05	Lamoni	IA	Fireball	10 seconds	Large green/red fireball over Lamoni, IA viewed from Graceland University. ((NUFORC Note: Probably a bright meteor. PD))	5/12/10
4/14/10 22:03	Coralville	IA	Fireball	30 secs	large greenish ball with trailing sparks moving level to ground altitude approx 500 feet.	5/12/10
4/14/10 22:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Circle		Seen circle hovering and flashing red, blue, and green in southwestern sky. ((NUFORC Note: Probable sighting of a star. PD))	5/12/10
3/18/10 20:50	Fort Madison	IA	Flash	5 seconds	UFO Crashland in Fort Madison Iowa high school football field	4/13/10
3/3/10 07:10	Fairfield	IA	Fireball		Crash down of a red green firebal at 7:10 pm Wed. March 3rd north of Fairfield, Iowa being observed by 4 jets.	4/13/10
2/28/10 06:00	Batavia	IA	Sphere	15 minutes	A UFO was seen to the north of our house.	4/13/10
2/13/10 03:05	Davenport	IA	Light	Two at 10 sec. each	Bright concentrated lights in two bursts, electrical disturbances, magnetic signs.	4/13/10
1/21/10 05:30	Saint Charles	IA	Other	15 minutes	Witness soundless flickering lights moving NE in the clouds above.	2/14/10
1/20/10 07:45	Walnut	IA	Flash	1 minute	HUGE Flash of Pale Blue Light & Loud Cracking Sound in Walnut, IA.	2/14/10
1/4/10 19:10	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	15 min	Two very bright white lights come close together in the northwest sky and one dissapears...	2/14/10
11/26/09 18:00	Shenandoah	IA	Light	2 minutes	Two lights separated quite a distance apart, traveling in unison in a straight line from N.W. to S.E.	12/12/09
11/12/09 21:00	Sioux City	IA	Flash	1	Lights in the sky south of downtown sioux city	12/12/09
11/1/09 16:15	Ottumwa	IA	Sphere	30 mins	round reflective object	12/12/09
10/20/09 23:00	Ottumwa	IA	Light	5 mins	flashing light	12/12/09
10/8/09 23:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Fireball	4 seconds	Fireball or (meteor?) Might be something stranger. ((anonymous report))	12/1/19
10/4/09 20:45	Eldridge	IA	Light	5 Minutes	Bright orange object seen flying E/SE out of atmosphere.	12/12/09
9/25/09 21:15	Spencer	IA	Changing	60 mins	Unexplained pattern of mult-colored lights that moved, diappeared, reappeared and has 7 Iowans believing that there are definately UFOs	12/12/09
9/20/09 02:00	Osceola to Kansas City	IA	Light	until sunrise	Bright fflashing ufo.	12/12/09
9/9/09 20:45	Ames	IA	Light	4-5 min.	Lights moving at same speed as aircraft, but no running lights. ((NUFORC Note: ISS and Space Shuttle in formation? PD))	12/12/09
9/8/09 20:00	Muscatine	IA	Light	3 min	i was looking southwest i saw 1 bright light and 1 dim light seem that they were teathered together moving very fast across the sky fro	12/12/09
9/6/09 02:00	Newton	IA	Oval	3 minutes	3 bright orange oval shaped craft moving slowley over interstate 80 in Newton, Iowa	12/12/09
9/5/09 21:00	Riverside	IA	Teardrop	2 minutes times 2	Two Slow Flying Fireballs Within Seven Minutes	12/12/09
9/2/09 21:41	Keokuk	IA	Light	3-4 seconds	A extremly bright ball of light shot across the night sky a couple of thousand feet in the air then diappeared.	12/12/09
9/2/09 01:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Flash	45 min	flashing blue and red lights, didnt move for an hour then vanishd	12/12/09
8/28/09 21:15	Ventura	IA	Unknown	1 minute	Craft with flashing white, red and blue lights hovering low over town making no noise.	12/12/09
8/23/09 03:17	Fairfield	IA	Oval	3 minutes	5 lights in shape of oval traveled from southwest to northeast sky which looked to outline one object at 3:16 AM.	8/27/09
8/15/09 10:00	Eldora	IA	Rectangle	6 sec	Large, horizontal, whitish rectangle seen during the day.	2/23/11
8/11/09 21:00	Des Moines	IA	Unknown	30 to 45 min	Flashing and strobing object, flashing and strobing military jets, and two white lights moving above the Des Moines Iowa area.	8/27/09
7/25/09 23:00	Algona	IA	Light	2 minutes	bright white light traveling north west to south east. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly the ISS, but it was visible only at 21:30 hrs. PD))	8/5/09
7/23/09 22:15	Clive	IA			Bright white light in the sky that got brighter, turned red and was gone.	8/5/09
7/17/09 10:00	Waterloo	IA	Fireball	7 minutes	4 Fireball-like UFO Seen in Waterloo Iowa, July 2009	12/12/09
7/14/09 04:30	Dow City	IA	Unknown	1 second	green shooting star that led me to discover a light with blue and red strobes on it!	8/5/09
7/11/09 21:18	Clinton	IA	Light	5 minutes	clinton, iowa ufo sigthing	8/5/09
7/2/09 00:00	Spencer	IA	Triangle	15 min	white large trianglar shape. Able to move fast to keep up with the car.	8/5/09
6/20/09 20:30	Sioux City	IA	Triangle	30 minutes	They made a triangular formation.	8/5/09
6/18/09 18:30	Arlington	IA	Light	4 minutes	just a glowing on and off light that suddenly darted.	1/31/11
5/15/09 17:00	Dubuque	IA	Circle	5 - 10 seconds	Red glowing ball taking off before thunderstorm arrived on location	2/14/10
5/2/09 03:30	Ames	IA	Light	1 hour	Craft making 90 degree jagged cuts.	5/12/09
4/24/09 22:19	Dubuque	IA	Unknown	30-35 Seconds	((HOAX??)) All I could think was "OH ((deleted))!!"	5/12/09
4/20/09 04:55	Graettinger	IA	Other	5 minutes	Palo Alto County Iowa 5 minute durating	5/12/09
4/6/09 21:00	Clive	IA	Sphere	3 seconds	veering shooting star?	4/14/09
3/19/09 06:20	Waukee	IA	Unknown	2-3 minutes	pulsating, glowing orange object floating to the northwest of waukee, ia	4/14/09
3/18/09 20:13	Webster City	IA	Light	10 secs	Fast moving light over nightime Webster city.	4/14/09
3/16/09 21:30	Dubuque	IA	Formation	10 seconds	Chain formation of objects at very high altitude and speed, changing to cluster formation as they moved.	3/19/09
3/15/09 23:00	Muscatine	IA	Triangle	20 seconds	Triangle object with 4 white lights silently flys through the sky very low to the ground.	12/12/09
3/14/09 23:30	Indianola	IA	Triangle	1or more hrs	triangular flat shaped object,with lights blinking spantaneously. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of Sirius?? PD))	3/19/09
3/5/09 06:45	Cedar Rapids	IA	Teardrop	pic	Two objects iin the sky above Cedar Rapids Iowa morning of 3/5/09	3/19/09
2/10/09 18:55	Hiawatha	IA	Other	3-5 seconds	Silent, colorless, tranluscent and of very large size flying at a elevation of 5000 feet.	3/19/09
2/2/09 09:00	Ottumwa	IA	Sphere	20 min	Bright white sphere pulsing to a amber color	3/19/09
1/23/09 19:00	Des Moines	IA	Oval	three hours	object first appeared to be aircraft with search lights on. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))	3/19/09
1/14/09 21:25	Perry	IA	Sphere	2 minutes	Red-orange light above horizon that rose slowly and zigzagged before disappearing.	3/19/09
1/2/09 19:45	Perry	IA	Flash	very short	Very fast moving light(green), south of Perry, IA	1/10/09
12/28/08 23:30	Des Moines	IA	Light	2 nights	Sorry, this was a while ago but I just found this site tonight. Over Christmas break 2008 I was up late one night and went outside	1/24/12
12/28/08 18:00	Langdon	IA	Triangle	12/28/08	Tringlar lights over Langdon	1/10/09
12/20/08 17:00	Iowa City	IA	Unknown	2 seconds	Bright opal colored flash in the sky oround Iowa City, Iowa on Dec. 20th 2008.	3/19/09
12/6/08 22:00	Ankeny	IA	Triangle		A bright light 10:25 faded out.	1/10/09
11/28/08 23:15	Sioux City	IA	Oval	2-3 Minute	Rounded UFO Near Grandview Park in Sioux City	1/10/09
11/25/08 18:30	New Hampton	IA	Light	15 minutes	2 HUGE BRIGHT STATIONARY LIGHTS IN THE SKY. ((NUFORC Note: Venus and Jupiter currently are prominent in the sw sky. PD))	1/10/09
11/21/08 03:00	Red Oak	IA	Teardrop	1-2 minutes	a teardrop	1/10/09
10/28/08 17:55	Iowa City	IA	Unknown	1.5 - 2.5 minutes	Late-Afternoon Object Not Depositing a Vapor Trail Unlike Several In-Vicinity Airliner Jets	10/31/08
10/25/08 22:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	2 minutes	Red light dimming in and out across the clear night sky.	10/31/08
10/15/08 21:00	Hancock County	IA	Chevron	1 minute	About 7 lights in a V pattern moving across sky heading north, no sound, lots of other aircraft in the area after the lights left	3/19/09
10/7/08 22:00	Des Moines	IA	Triangle	10 MINUTED	WHILE I WAS DRIVING ON THE INTERSTATE I SAW 3 TRIANGLER UFOS OVER MY CAR.	10/31/08
10/2/08 20:00	Marshalltown	IA	Triangle	4-5 seconds	October 2, 2008 just after 8 p.m. Marshalltown, Iowa, saw a black triangular shaped object, with round green lights in V pattern	10/31/08
9/7/08 23:00	Council Bluffs	IA	Triangle	two minutes	Sighted black triangle with three white lights and one red. Hovers, moves slowly, turns. Little sound.	10/31/08
8/31/08 01:20	Waterloo	IA	Light	35 min	Over Waterloo viewed from Dewar and Oelwein	10/31/08
8/23/08 21:40	Fort Dodge	IA	Fireball	5 to 7 minutes	Strange pulsing fireball low on the horizon.	10/31/08
8/15/08 00:00	Urbandale	IA	Light	2 hours plus	Changing colors of lights above city.	10/31/08
8/4/08 21:30	Des Moines	IA	Fireball	15 seconds	Red light over Des Moines, Iowa vewed from Mitchellville, Iowa.	8/12/08
8/3/08 16:42	Sioux City	IA	Disk	30 seconds	Object seen within 1 Mile East of Grandview park in Sioux City(NorthSide). It travelled at about 400 ft in elevation in a N.E. directio	8/12/08
8/1/08 22:30	Des Moines	IA	Sphere	30 seconds	My brother and my mom were with me as we saw a ball of light moving Northwest through the sky. It only lasted about 40 seconds.	8/12/08
7/19/08 20:00	Solon	IA			These lights were visible in the early night time sky and witnessed by several observers prior to an advancing storm on 07/20/08 near S	8/12/08
7/18/08 21:50	Waterloo	IA	Fireball	10 seconds	Flamelike UFO seen in Waterloo, IA	1/10/09
7/17/08 23:15	Urbandale	IA	Unknown	30 seconds	Five Intense Beams of Light	8/12/08
7/7/08 21:20	Eldridge	IA	Triangle	30-60 seconds	Small triangle shaped lights moving through sky.	8/12/08
7/4/08 13:30	Eldora	IA	Disk	30 minutes	Very large disk shaped ufo stopped in mid air a number of times.	9/24/12
7/3/08 19:00	Atlantic	IA	Oval	10 min	07-03-2008 on a cloudless nite a star in sky above iowa moving in different patterns for 10 min	1/10/09
5/29/08 21:57	Solon	IA	Unknown	2 minutes	object hovering with two bright lights that made no noise and disappeared into a while puffy cloud type formation and glowed.	6/12/08
5/20/08 21:30	Tama	IA	Light	FEW MINUTES	BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT MOVING ACROSS SKY SEEN ON THREE OCASSIONS	7/5/08
5/20/08 01:00	Country Side	IA	Fireball		Two Brothers See Red Orbs Flying in Sky at Back Road CampSite.	10/10/11
4/25/08 23:51	Cedar Rapids	IA	Light	8 minutes	Two bright lights with about four or five smaller lights scattered near it dissapeared after being seen for around 8 seconds	6/12/08
4/15/08	Des Moines	IA	Unknown		A light came in my window and wake me up and after 3 min it went straight up and out of sight.	7/3/13
4/7/08 22:30	Mediapolis	IA	Triangle	10 seconds	An object flying from the south slowed down near our house and then quickly flew toward the NW	6/12/08
3/16/08 02:30	Little Rock	IA	Triangle	35 secs	blueish green triangular object 0230 little rock ia going north then suddenly south lasted 30+ secs	6/12/08
3/6/08 18:30	Des Moines	IA	Unknown	2.5 hours	4 Fighter Jets continuous pattern. 2 F16's elongated N-S oval grid and 2 F16's elongated E-W oval grid. 2 craft leave fast after 3 hrs	5/15/13
3/6/08 18:00	Altoona	IA	Light	hour	Blood-red orb being chased by multiple jets.	3/31/08
2/19/08 19:10	Smithland	IA	Sphere	2 min	bright blue sphere near Smithland, IA	3/4/08
1/17/08	Altoona	IA	Oval	2 min	strange oval mettalic ufo	1/21/08
12/29/07 22:15	Altoona	IA	Unknown	five minutes	strange pulsing light over Altoona Iowa	3/4/08
11/23/07 22:03	Cedar Rapids	IA	Triangle	3 Min	Triangular craft, two horizontaly level beams of lights, "Head Lights" I-380, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Near Eastern Iowa Airport	11/28/07
11/4/07 10:00	Cedar Falls	IA	Circle	5 seconds	I want to believe.....	4/17/08
10/25/07 22:30	Marion	IA	Light	10-15 Minutes	I was outside smoking a cigarette. I looked over to the field across the street. I saw the first object and thought maybe it's jus	1/21/08
10/20/07 13:00	Lamoni	IA	Unknown	0n video/football game	I captured a dark object moving quickly across the sky (to fast for a bird)!!	2/14/08
10/20/07 00:24	Council Bluffs	IA	Chevron	2	Strange, Swift, 'Geese'.	11/28/07
10/9/07 23:00	Pella	IA	Flash		Light colored red flashing lights appeared in the sky in Pella, IA on 2 different days and times.	11/28/07
9/19/07 22:00	Webb	IA	Light	7min.	Large orange lites in straight line formation coming on one at a time then going off simutaneously, no sound. Bt moving quickly.	10/8/07
9/19/07 09:30	Webb	IA	Unknown	unknown	five orange blinking lights	10/8/07
9/17/07 23:00	Des Moines	IA	Unknown	About a half hour	Green lit-up horizon with saucer like flying object.	8/12/08
9/14/07 05:50	Bettendorf	IA	Triangle	4 minutes	Tiangular 3 white lighted object hovering with no sound	10/8/07
9/13/07 20:45	Keokuk	IA		1-2 minutes	A large red circle shaped object appeared out of no where and disappeared as quickly.	10/8/07
9/5/07 21:00	Cedar Falls	IA	Light	2 - 3 seconds	Last Wednesday or Thursday, about 9 PM, I looked out my living room window and saw a ball of light streak across the sky. It was fairly	10/8/07
8/30/07 20:30	Keokuk	IA	Light	10 minutes	Sequential orange lights in night southeastern night sky Keokuk Iowa 8/30/2007	1/21/08
8/25/07 05:45	Waterloo	IA	Light	15 Minutes	White light, moving in different directions/speeds and stopped in the night/morning sky.	10/8/07
8/21/07 19:45	Des Moines	IA	Triangle	15 MINUTES	WHILE I WAS GOING TO AN INDIAN RESTAURANT I SAW A TRIANGLER SHAPED OBJECT.	10/31/08
7/31/07 22:00	Des Moines	IA	Light	2 minuts	very bright white light that slowly dimd then moved slowly to the north across the sky at high altude. Brightend again then disapered.t	8/7/07
7/25/07 22:30	Waukon	IA	Changing	uncertain-15/20 minutes?	Multiple UFO sitings cumulating in siting of an object that changed shape and "zigzagged" through the sky.	8/14/07
7/24/07 23:00	Ames	IA	Diamond	3-4 minutes	Two silent objects over public backup water supply.	11/11/13
7/23/07 04:15	Cascade	IA	Light	2-3 sec	This is my second sighting in July. This early morning I was traveling south out of Dubuque, Ia on highway 151 near Cascade,Ia. I as al	8/14/07
7/21/07 12:30	Cedar Falls	IA	Light	1.5 hours	Four crafts, flashing red, green and brilliant white lights, hovering overhead, one making zigzag movements.	8/7/07
7/7/07 00:45	Ames	IA	Triangle	5 Minutes +	Orange Triangular Craft in Pursuit	8/7/07
6/26/07 21:00	Rockwell City	IA	Fireball	21:09	Fire Ball	3/4/08
6/21/07 23:00	Correctionville	IA	Triangle	3 min	triangular shape with 2 lights streaming off. ((NUFORC Note: ISS?? PD))	8/7/07
6/20/07 21:56	Albia	IA	Light	8 seconds	2 points of lights resembling planets disappearing. ((NUFORC Note: Space Shuttle w/ ISS?? PD))	8/7/07
6/19/07 23:05	Spencer	IA	Formation	apprx 6 Minutes	Twin glowing white lights silently traverse the sky in Spencer Iowa then fade out. ((NUFORC Note: Space Shuttle w/ ISS?? PD))	8/7/07
6/19/07 23:00	Sioux City	IA	Light	30 minutes	Outside on breezeless night with neighbors talking when several lights appeared across the sky.	8/7/07
6/15/07 13:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Unknown	5 minutes	Sun shining off of geometric shape, hovering still, over Cedar River in C.R.	8/30/13
5/22/07 20:10	Des Moines	IA	Changing	20-30 sec.	Shape Changing Tube or Rod with Pursuing Military Jets?	6/12/07
5/15/07 23:40	Davenport	IA	Triangle	5-8 minutes	Pyramid constilation UFO slowly move across night sky	4/18/12
5/2/07 03:10	Bettendorf	IA	Unknown	3 - 5 minutes	Fats moving, pulsating lights	6/12/07
4/23/07 11:12	Des Moines	IA	Circle	10min	Hazed lights traveling dew north in a clockwise position.	6/12/08
4/23/07 00:00	Marion	IA	Unknown	2 Minutes	A strange short sirun noise with two massive jet streams of smoke in the sky in rainbow formation.	4/27/07
3/15/07 23:18	Ames	IA	Other	5 minutes	Two white spheroids merged together while remaining distinct and hovered at a distance before disappearing after five minutes.	4/27/07
3/12/07 23:00	Monticello	IA	Other	3to4 min	Blinking lights moving several different directions.	4/27/07
3/10/07 18:20	DeWitt	IA	Triangle	10 minutes	object was traveling from South to North directly over town at a constant speed.	4/27/07
3/8/07 20:00	Keystone (rural)	IA	Oval	30 minutes	3/08/07 to 3/13/07 Rural Keystone Iowa Oblong Lighted object/ small star like fast moving objects multiple sighting 20:00 to 21:30	4/27/07
2/22/07 02:27	Des Moines	IA	Light	5 sec	To fast to be any thing Ive seen as a point of light, two objects parallel in a turn.	2/24/07
2/19/07 20:00	West Point	IA	Circle	2 min.	Large thin orange crescent with outline lights low in sky; changed size; possible mirage.	2/24/07
2/16/07 19:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Formation	10 seconds	Six to eight round neon green objects flying north to south in a v shaped formation at low speed and slightly higher than tree height	2/24/07
2/6/07 23:45	Cedar Rapids	IA	Cigar	30 minutes	Power outage, flash of light and two soundless hovering craft	2/24/07
2/4/07 20:00	Bettendorf	IA	Unknown	10 seconds	Fireball, illuminating as dropping to ground 30 degrees inclination from horizontal	2/24/07
1/31/07 01:45	Burlington	IA	Triangle	12 minutes	Three bright lights in the form of a triangle with pin point lights emitted at corners.	2/1/07
1/15/07 15:00	Marshalltown	IA	Oval	hour	They seemed to react to each other the way that mercury does in its liquid form.	2/1/07
1/10/07 23:05	Council Bluffs	IA	Chevron	2 hours	I was driving near the industrial estate when a bright light appeared on the horizon. It began to climb into the sky and grow larger. T	2/1/07
1/10/07 23:00	Council Bluffs	IA	Chevron	57 minutes	the object darted around until it went over the horizon	2/1/07
1/8/07 15:56	Otley	IA	Sphere	About 30 secs	Observed unusual aircraft between Pella and Otley westbound on highway 163 around mile marker 36 viewed at a 45 degree from vehicle. Ai	2/1/07
1/5/07 22:08	Atlantic and Audubon	IA	Unknown	2 seconds	A streaking light falling to the ground seen from east bound I-80 mile marker 69.	2/1/07
1/2/07 21:00	Adair	IA	Circle	45 seconds	3 orange donut shaped objects	2/1/07
1/1/07 00:11	Cedar Falls	IA	Light	3-5 minutes	Strange light bobs up and down three times before circling around the east side of the city and disappearing.	2/1/07
12/25/06 20:47	Rockford	IA	Circle	watched about 10 -15 min	Dec. 25, 2006 8:45 P.M. Rockford, Iowa A round with blue and red lights slowly moved across the sky.	2/1/07
12/12/06 20:00	Iowa City	IA	Light	3-4 seconds	extremely bright green lights that moved quickly across the sky and down to the horizon	2/1/07
12/9/06 21:45	Bettendorf	IA	Triangle	over one hour	9:45 PM 12/09/06 huge triangle defined by white light pattern motionless about 7 miles south of Bettendorf IA	12/14/06
11/19/06 22:00	Waterloo	IA	Other	30 seconds	silent objest with rippling effect	12/7/06
11/19/06 20:02	Hartley	IA	Unknown	1 min	5 liights in southern sky	3/8/07
11/7/06 20:30	Stratford	IA	Unknown	10 minutes	Huge spinning yellow orange lights in the Central Iowa sky.	12/7/06
10/24/06 22:00	Fort Dodge	IA	Triangle	Three hours	Iowa UFO invasion!	10/30/06
10/1/06 17:00	Algona	IA	Unknown	over an hour	6 people saw 2 objects in the sky that had lights and were flying in zig-zag patterns in the sky while staying in the same area.	10/30/06
9/29/06	Spirit Lake	IA	Light	5 sec	High altitude orange light moving from zenith west to 30 degrees at incredible speed and rapidly fading.	10/30/06
9/20/06 23:04	La Motte	IA	Flash	A few seconds	Wierd flash of light	10/30/06
8/27/06 00:30	Winterset	IA	Disk	15 min	The Closest thing anyone will ever come to a actual real life encounter.	10/30/06
8/12/06 22:00	Fort Dodge	IA	Oval	10 seconds	Solid orb of light moving rapidly increasing in size and brightness then suddenly vanishes.	10/30/06
8/5/06 17:47	Waterloo	IA	Cigar	5-10mins	Bright White/Sliver Cigar Shaped Craft sighted Iowa	10/30/06
8/5/06 17:40	Waterloo	IA	Cigar	4.5 minutes	White Cigar Shaped Craft seen over Waterloo, Iowa	10/30/06
7/25/06 04:31	Urbandale	IA	Light	6 seconds	Bright light	10/30/06
7/22/06 03:00	Des Moines	IA	Light	30-45 seconds	Flash of white light turns into orb then dims to likeness of dimm star.	10/30/06
7/15/06 11:00	Ottumwa	IA	Light	20 min	Unexplained object floating across the night sky	6/12/07
7/14/06 23:30	Harpers Ferry	IA	Light	2 nights	Bluish-white basketball-sized light over Mississippi River and land close to Effigy Mounds natioal monument	3/31/08
6/14/06 23:15	Davenport	IA	Oval	15	UFO Sighting in Davenport, by the Sharewood apartments, and the Mississippi Valey Fair.	7/16/06
5/25/06 00:30	Muscatine	IA	Rectangle	2 mins.	Strange object passing through Muscatine	7/16/06
5/22/06 21:35	Coralville	IA	Oval	1 sec	a light and movement that I have never seen before	7/16/06
5/14/06 01:45	Newton	IA	Light	10 minutes	Red dots in the sky	5/15/06
5/14/06 01:32	Newton	IA	Light	about 10 mins	Red dots in mid air	5/15/06
5/7/06 21:30	Davenport	IA	Light	less than 1 minute	I was sitting on steps leading to my house. I was facing west when I noticed a light moving from a westardly direction that was very hi	5/15/06
12/22/05 21:40	Osceola	IA	Triangle	15 MINUTES	WHILE I STEPPED OUT OF MY MOTEL ROOM I SAW A LARGE TRIANGLER OBJECT THAT DRIFTED IN THE SKY.	10/31/08
12/22/05 20:40	Osceloa	IA	Triangle	15 MINUTES	WHILE I WAS DRIVING AROUND AFTER DINNER I SAW SOME TRIANGLER UFOS OFF THE INTERSTATE AND AT THE MOTEL I WAS AT.	10/31/08
10/28/05 08:00	Eldridge	IA	Disk	30 seconds	MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP Report: I saw a bright circular metal object in the sky which seemed to hover.	12/12/09
9/24/05 05:30	Fort Madison	IA	Light	20 minutes	Recently my friends and I were on a mission trip just outside of Fort Madison, Iowa. We had just finished doing some work on a house wh	7/16/06
6/30/05 04:30	Sioux city	IA	Other	45 minutes	I saw a barrel shaped object two hundred feet above morningside Lutheran church. It was n Not shiny. It resembled a 55 gallon oil drum	6/2/13
6/14/05 21:00	Council Bluffs	IA	Triangle	30 seconds	Traingle UFO sighting clear veiw three witnesses and one stubborn person who wouldn't look	10/31/08
5/10/05 15:00	Holstein	IA	Unknown	unknown	Time manipulation after possible abduction. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes	7/17/11
10/31/03 21:30	Granville	IA	Cigar	3-4 mins	5 strange lights hoevering above ground	2/1/07
7/31/03 14:00	Des Moines	IA	Cigar	5-10 Seconds	Cloaking Cigar...	5/15/06
5/15/03 21:00	Council Bluffs	IA	Changing	5 minutes	Small orange light morphing into large triangle(4-5 stories thick) with bright lights on underside	11/21/10
9/16/02 06:00	Johnston	IA	Changing	30 min	High flying objects spotted on Interstate-80 in Iowa on Sept 16th 2007	10/8/07
9/1/02 23:00	Des moines	IA	Light	Hours	When I was about 10, I had laid down in bed. I looked at the clock and it was almost 11 at night. I turned my attention to the tv and w	9/5/17
8/15/99 02:30	Centerville	IA	Circle	1 hour	Bright Circle of Light followed me from Oskaloosa IA to Centerville, IA.	6/20/19
10/1/98 21:00	Clarinda	IA	Triangle	60 seconds	silent and large UFO just above tree tops.	8/5/09
7/14/98 23:00	Shanadoah	IA	Triangle	20 Min	Triangler Craft was moving from the east to west about tree top high over our house in the country outside of Shenadoah IA.	8/7/07
6/30/98 02:00	Indianola	IA	Diamond	1-2 MINUTES	Orange-Copper Glowing Diamonds...	5/15/06
6/10/98 20:00	Mechanicsville	IA	Triangle	2 minutes	V-shaped large hovering object.	5/20/16
5/1/97 22:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Triangle	maybe 15 minutes	Cedar Rapids Iowa blue lights hovering in the shape of a "V" with no sound and two witnesses	3/4/08
12/19/93 18:00	Ottumwa	IA	Formation	8-10 seconds	1993 Evening Ufo sighting over Ottumwa, Iowa. Singular object splits in two, lights fly across sky.	3/4/08
5/9/92 22:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	Triangle	10 minutes	Dark triangular object with light on "nose" and 3 underneath at the points.	11/6/14
4/30/92 02:00	Indianola	IA	Unknown	5 Minutes	Strange Vibrations...	5/15/06
9/12/89	Waterloo	IA	Oval	?????????	Bright light over my naborhood that made no noise at all but wasnt from here,woke me from a dead sleep.	9/24/12
7/1/89 03:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	Triangle	15 minutes approx.	I think my sighting as a child may have something to do with my current abilities	7/5/08
10/30/86 13:30	Decatur City	IA	Triangle	2 minutes	static electric shocks felt on the short hairs of my body	2/14/08
7/2/86 20:00	Fairfield	IA	Cigar	2 minutes	I was pastor of a rural church. One of the members of the congregation and I were leaving a Bible study when we noticed a strange cigar	5/12/09
8/15/83 21:00	Shellsburg	IA	Triangle	3 hours	Black v shape no sound verry slow and low	6/14/12
6/30/83 19:00	Akron	IA	Unknown	Unknown	I may have had a close encounter of the 3rd time in 1983 that I did not remember until a specific event happened that triggered the mem	12/21/17
9/12/82 05:30	Mason City	IA	Sphere	1 minute	While helping on paper rout, early morning, right orange globe went down off to my right.	2/1/07
7/29/81 18:00	Vinton	IA	Triangle	5-6 hours	It was Black as night, triangle shaped, with three lights underneath one in each corne	6/14/12
1/15/81 01:15	Davenport	IA	Cigar	21 min	strange colered lights hovered before speeding away.	2/24/07
6/15/79 14:00	Dorchester	IA	Other	5 minutes	Upright Y shaped yellow and black flying objects.	4/18/12
9/1/78 14:00	Sioux City (IA)/Sioux Falls (SD) (between; on I 29)	IA	Other	10 minute	Landed UFO off I29 between Sioux Falls, SD & Sioux City, IA in late summertime 1978	8/30/13
8/12/78 02:00	Des Moines	IA	Triangle	30 seconds	Boomerang shape many light made no sound.	2/4/13
7/15/78 12:00	Avoca	IA	Light	2 minutes	Chevron-shaped retinal after-image after looking at the sun with eyes closed.	3/29/18
7/12/77 01:30	Des Moines	IA	Triangle	3 min	never made a sound	6/12/08
7/17/76 21:00	Iowa City	IA	Cigar	70 mins	9 stars in the summer sky,	11/21/10
7/15/76 20:00	West Liberty	IA	Circle	15-20 seconds	Circular orb sighting at close range (about 25 feet) that moved in a straight line floating above the ground	11/21/10
6/1/75 03:00	Iowa City	IA	Disk	10 minutes	Silver disk high in blue sky over Iowa 1975	2/1/07
3/16/73 22:00	Reasnor	IA	Disk	1 hour	Disc seen hovering above the clouds for an hour.	1/4/19
9/1/72 10:00	Onawa	IA	Disk	3 min	Saucer shaped object with square red lights moves slowly over small Iowa town.	1/10/09
4/6/71 20:00	Osceola	IA	Disk	16 minutes	((HOAX??)) it was a flying disk it was tracking us the chararistic of the disk dont aply it followed us.	12/12/09
1/15/71 22:00	Sioux City	IA	Sphere	10 minutes	My friend and I were on a country highway between Sioux City and Westfield, Iowa. We were coming up on a farmer's house and both of us	12/1/19
6/1/70 22:00	Westfield	IA	Disk	5 minutes	I saw a UFO over a house, very close to roof.	5/15/13
5/1/68 13:00	Redfield	IA	Cone	30 deconds	It was a nice day in may, it stayed directly above the railroad track. I just stood there watching the whole thing.	3/8/07
4/15/68 23:30	Silver City (near)	IA	Circle	60 seconds	Large white light near Silver City, Iowa.	2/1/07
1/1/65 20:00	St. Ansgar	IA	Fireball	20 seconds	winter nite wonder	2/1/07
9/1/58 21:00	Perry	IA	Triangle	15-20 seconds	Triangular formation of red objects flying soundlessly across the sky.	6/24/14
6/30/57 13:00	Burlington	IA	Circle	90 seconds	Slow travel when observed, followed by an abrupt direction change with unbelievable acceleration.	6/2/13