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Date / Time	City	State	Country	Shape	Duration	Summary	Posted	Images
12/17/22 18:40	Galva	IA	USA	Disk	30 seconds	Light Blue line in sight 30 seconds moving northerly	12/22/22
12/11/22 05:56	Shenandoah	IA	USA	Changing	3-4 minutes	I first seen multiple lights…round in nature…and thought to myself am I really seeing this?! So I grabbed my phone and took pictures!	12/22/22	Yes
11/12/22 09:00	Sioux City	IA	USA	Circle	30 mins	Honestly looked like a rainbow portal	12/22/22
10/30/22 15:58	Center Point	IA	USA	Other	Unknown	3 digital pics of 2 conjoined dark cloud circles with illuminated crown of blue/white light in sky at 4 pm on Sun, 30 Oct 2022.	12/22/22	Yes
10/30/22 06:00	Mason City	IA	USA	Unknown	20 minutes	Saw this on my walk	12/22/22	Yes
10/12/22 12:12	Sigourney	IA	USA	Disk	Unknown	Found pick in phone 1 week later did not see craft when pic taken	12/22/22
10/8/22 19:40	Des Moines	IA	USA	Other	10 seconds	A large well defined object passed in-front of the brightly lit full moon; crossing across the right lower quadrant	12/22/22
9/29/22 21:00	Iowa City	IA	USA	Other	30 - 40 seconds	I barely visible dark boomerang glided across the sky noiselessly. No lights.	10/8/22
9/21/22 10:20	Osceola	IA	USA	Unknown	About a hour.	The UFOs flew over my apartment and picked up a car and dropped it.	10/8/22
8/25/22 23:10	Waverly	IA	USA	Light	10 Seconds	Strangely moving light	9/9/22
8/25/22 10:30	Royal	IA	USA	Unknown	A second	A HUGE flash of light in the sky. Looked bluish/electric, and then gone! It happened so fast. NOT lightning.	9/9/22
7/24/22 21:30	Tama	IA	USA	Light	One and a half hours	Bright, light in night sky, moving minutely and then erratically for 1.5 hours, 10-in circumferenz, returning to zenith w 5 mini-lights	9/9/22
7/17/22 21:25	Unknown	IA	USA	Other	Captured in photo	Didn't realize what I captured until looking at photos	9/9/22	Yes
7/13/22 04:13	Titonka	IA	USA	Light	2-3 minutes	A very bright and constant light in the northern night sky silently moved east and then south before trees blocked view.	9/9/22
6/30/22 21:30	Marshalltown	IA	USA	Light	90 seconds	I saw a solid orange light traveling at what looked like airplane speed but disappeared rather quicker than an aircraft would.	9/9/22
6/28/22 21:40	Urbandale	IA	USA	Circle	I was at a stop light it.	See sighting details	9/9/22
6/23/22 09:59	Iowa City	IA	USA	Rectangle	10-15 seconds	Rectangular shaped distortion in the clouds that disturbed clouds when it disappeared	9/9/22	Yes
6/20/22 16:02	Pleasantville	IA	USA	Circle	Picture	Looking out the garage	6/22/22	Yes
6/19/22 01:18	Water	IA	USA	Light	Less then 30 seconds	I arrived seconds after sighting	6/22/22	Yes
6/19/22 01:15	Albia	IA	USA	Circle	7 minutes	looked up at the sky around 1am, the object appeared very bright at first then slowly started to fade away.	6/22/22	Yes
5/28/22 21:50	Clive	IA	USA	Formation	It seemed like 5 minutes	I saw a white ball of light it flashed at me twice, so I pulled out my phone camera.	6/22/22
5/27/22 17:15	Williamsburg	IA	USA	Sphere	Still on going	There has been a stationary round object floating for over an hour and is still there, confirmed it is not Venus with the app	6/22/22	Yes
5/3/22 21:59	Polk City	IA	USA	Cylinder	2 minutes	White light	5/31/22
4/29/22 22:15	Iowa City	IA	USA	Changing	5 minutes	4 white circular lights moving criss-cross in a counter-clockwise fashion slowly moving across the sky.	5/31/22
4/21/22 20:52	Evansdale	IA	USA	Cylinder	1 minute	Long straight bright white object, bright as the stars	4/22/22	Yes
2/5/22 13:46	Council Bluffs	IA	USA			MADAR Node 133	3/4/22
1/29/22 18:20	Webster city	IA	USA	Light	15 minutes	Slow moving light across sky, that flickers and dissappears	12/22/22	Yes
1/11/22 18:00	Avoca	IA	USA	Circle	Over one hour	Seen over town by many	3/4/22
12/24/21 19:15	Bettendorf	IA	USA	Formation	5 minutes	Four red lights, not flashing, traveling in a line north to south	3/4/22	Yes
12/16/21 11:33	Ventura	IA	USA		Over 10 minutes	Small dot that turned into squiggly circles	5/31/22
12/3/21 06:00	Marion	IA	USA	Formation		Line of lights	12/19/21
11/28/21 22:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Rectangle		Driving at night and saw a large rectangular "float"" in the sky moving slowly noiseless. . Bright lights clearly defined the ufo. 3min	12/19/21
10/31/21 06:43	West Des Moines	IA	USA	Light	30 seconds	Satellite-type speeding light in sky stopped near star, went 90 degrees in different direction.	11/15/21
9/20/21 18:00	Urbandale	IA	USA	Other		Without realizing it I had captured a picture of a ufo while out smoking with a friend	10/19/21
9/11/21 16:15	Iowa City	IA	USA	Disk	10 seconds	Orange saucer shaped. Looked as if it was lit from bottom. It was really moving, but appeared to hover and move up slightly. Then it go	10/19/21
8/12/21 20:49	Quarry	IA	USA	Other	10 seconds	Approximately 20:49 a bright green square with rounded corners and 2 white lights in center object flew in a 45° angle downward from sk	8/16/21
7/5/21 22:00	Clinton	IA	USA	Other	2 minutes	Single white unidentified object detected in residential area.	8/16/21
6/14/21 01:00	Osceola	IA	USA		20 min	My report is that I sited a UFO and they may be morphed into human body's thank you.	8/16/21
6/13/21 03:00	Fort Madison	IA	USA	Changing	Still occuring	So came out to smoke a cigarette and there happens to be a very very bright light in the sky. I pulled the my phone camera out to pictu	7/31/21
5/22/21 11:46	Sioux City	IA	USA	Other	5 min	Was finishing at the park next to river before heading out it first was a string of lights with lights going circular and one came out	7/31/21
4/30/21 21:00	Newton	IA	USA	Circle	5 seconds	it was northeast direction saw a bright circle shape move slow then disappear very quickly	5/20/21
4/28/21 13:48	Council Bluffs	IA	USA			MADAR Node 133	7/31/21
4/26/21 22:00	Res Moines	IA	USA	Other	1 minute	I was in my front yard looking at the Super Pink Moon with my neighbor in the evening on the eveningof April 26th, 2021. We were both u	5/20/21
3/14/21 04:00	Council Bluffs	IA	USA			MADAR Node 133	4/23/21
3/1/21 05:00	Muscatine	IA	USA	Light	Up to August 2022 & cont.	Different types, shapes, formations outside & inside of home	12/22/22	Yes
2/26/21 13:06	Council Bluffs	IA	USA			MADAR Node 133	3/31/21
2/18/21 04:00	Iowa Falls	IA	USA	Changing	14 minutes	A circular object, alternating between a disk and a shape shifting blob, paced the truck that I was driving.	3/2/21
1/22/21 04:00	Sioux City	IA	USA	Light	5 minutes	Late at night, I saw a very large red light that traveled quickly across the sky and disappeared.	3/2/21
1/18/21 20:25	Oxford Junction	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	~10 seconds	Bright blue light under the cloud line going in an upward diagonal line until disappearing into the clouds.	1/19/21
1/9/21 00:30	Afton	IA	USA	Changing	20 min	Started as what looked like a bright bulb then more of them. One was green, changed shapes many many times; some of them are scary loo	3/2/21
12/28/20 06:15	Marion	IA	USA	Light	4 min	Night red light with small white lights.	1/19/21
12/19/20 20:30	Sioux City	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Sphere	40s	UFO fleet in straight line pattern over Iowa City 04Dec2020	12/23/20
12/4/20 06:45	Urbandale	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Formation	2 minutes	Line of lights sitting over the cedar river	12/23/20
10/8/20 02:40	Coggon	IA	USA	Circle	2 seconds	Bright Green light moving across sky in Iowa	12/23/20
10/1/20 21:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA			MADAR Node 133	11/5/20
9/3/20 17:08	Dubuque	IA	USA	Formation	10 mins	Formation of 50+ lights in the sky.	8/16/21
9/1/20 03:00	Ames	IA	USA	Light	2 seconds	Light in sky defying gravity and disappearing in rural Iowa	9/4/20
8/20/20 21:00	Knoxville	IA	USA	Light	1 minute	Lights in the sky	8/27/20
8/20/20 01:00	Coralville	IA	USA	Unknown		I was getting a drink of water and I saw weird lights.	9/9/22
8/19/20 21:32	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA			MADAR Node 133	7/23/20
6/11/20 14:51	Council Bluffs	IA	USA			MADAR Node 133	7/9/20
5/17/20 10:00	East Amana	IA	USA	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	USA	Disk	2 seconds	I got it on video by accident during storm.	6/25/20
5/2/20 22:50	Eagle Grove	IA	USA	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	USA		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	USA	Disk	2 minutes	hovering saucer nears ground then disappears in sky	6/25/20
4/27/20 21:15	Chariton	IA	USA	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	USA	Formation	3-4 minutes	30-50 White lights in a perfect line. ((Starlink satellites?))	6/25/20
4/20/20 23:00	Badger	IA	USA		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	USA	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	USA	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	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Light		we noticed and counted over 65 crafts flying in straight line from West to East ((Starlink satellites?))	6/25/20
4/18/20 21:00	Manly	IA	USA	Formation	20 minutes	22-25 objects in uniform straight line over northern Iowa. ((Starlink satellites?))	6/25/20
4/9/20 21:25	Emmetsburg	IA	USA	Other	20 seconds	Two lights at even distance	5/7/20
4/9/20 21:20	Waterloo	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Circle	1 hour	((NUFORC Note: No information provided by witness. PD))	5/15/20
3/26/20 20:45	Spencer	IA	USA	Light	35 minutes	42 lights, equally spaced flying SW to NE. ((Starlink satellites))	5/21/20
3/24/20 22:00	Waterloo	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	15-20 minutes	Substantial amount of 'satellites'. (("Starlink" satellites??))	4/9/20
3/4/20 05:15	Ames	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA			MADAR Node 133	4/9/20
2/20/20 19:00	Clear Lake	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA		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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA			MADAR Node 133	2/7/20
1/11/20 20:00	Alden Williams	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	3 minutes	Object Hovering still with two white lights, one flashing. No noise.	2/7/20
1/4/20 19:50	Maxwell	IA	USA	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	USA	Disk	5	Object changing colors (green,red,white) moving very unnaturally..	2/7/20
12/27/19 22:30	Chelsea	IA	USA	Unknown	Unknown	10-12 circular lights lined up on a hill	2/7/20
12/27/19 22:30	Chelsea	IA	USA	Other	15 minutes	Row of 10-12 circles. (("Starlink" satellites??))	2/7/20
12/25/19 17:30	Stacyville	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA			MADAR Node 133	1/31/20
12/20/19 18:50	Milo	IA	USA	Formation	18:53	Orange lights in triangle formation	12/22/19
12/7/19 23:44	Ames	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	5 minutes	Points of light moving across the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Starlink satellites? PD))	12/22/19
11/19/19	Des Moines	IA	USA	Light	17:27	Light disk object bigger than plane enters atmosphere.	12/1/19
10/17/19 07:48	Stanhope	IA	USA	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	USA	Circle	20 minutes	Circle of lights flashing different colors and yellow larger lights	12/1/19
9/30/19 20:57	Altoona	IA	USA	Fireball	2 minutes	Bright orange ball over Iowa	10/4/19
9/24/19 23:44	Council Bluffs (outside of)	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA			MADAR Node 108	9/6/19
8/24/19 23:00	Muscatine	IA	USA	Changing	4 minutes	Diferent colored lights changing shape.	9/6/19
8/24/19 21:00	Bettendorf	IA	USA	Triangle	1-2 minutes	7 bright lights in the form of a triangle but saw no structure and appeared black in the sky and did not move	7/31/21
8/12/19 20:44	West Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Sphere	10 seconds	White orb hovering before shooting off into the sky	8/23/19
8/3/19 22:00	Bondurant	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA			MADAR 133	6/27/19
6/8/19 19:22	Council Bluffs	IA	USA			MADAR Node 133	6/20/19
5/26/19 22:23	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	Fireball	30 minutes	Orange and yellow blobs went west for thirty min.	6/7/19
5/21/19 21:50	West Liberty	IA	USA	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	USA	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
4/15/19 02:30	South of waterloo iowa	IA	USA	Rectangle	1 minute	Camouflage in cloud lit area up in bright green light	10/8/22
4/2/19 09:40	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Disk		Flying disc.	4/8/19
3/28/19 03:00	Grimes	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Flash	5 seconds	Bright flashing light zooming toward earth. ((anonymous report))	5/9/19
1/8/19 15:10	Newton	IA	USA	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	USA			MADAR Node 99	1/4/19
12/24/18 20:55	Bettendorf	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	3-5 seconds	Fire falling from the sky.	10/25/18
10/19/18 09:13	New London	IA	USA			MADAR Node 99 test facility	10/25/18
10/19/18 07:30	Exira	IA	USA	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	USA			MADAR Node 99 test site	10/25/18
9/26/18 06:50	Iowa City	IA	USA	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	USA	Flash	1 hour	Blue flashes/orbs/dancing lights. ((anonymous report))	9/27/18
9/18/18 02:30		IA	USA	Light	4	Communicating traveling orbs? ((anonymous report))	9/27/18
9/18/18 00:00	Osceola	IA	USA	Circle	8 seconds	5 blue/grey circles in triangle shape. ((anonymous report))	9/27/18
9/17/18 19:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	Sphere	2 minutes	Odd moving falling star. ((anonymous report))	9/27/18
9/6/18 20:00	Adel	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	10 minutes	UFO	8/31/18
8/27/18 20:42	Keokuk	IA	USA	Light	15 seconds	Bright light with no sound. Extremely fast. ((anonymous report))	8/31/18
8/6/18 20:30	Primghar (close to)	IA	USA	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	USA	Cylinder	~5 minutes	Two golden cylindrical distant objects far above the wind turbines	8/17/18
8/4/18 07:30	Vinton	IA	USA			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	USA	Light	1-2 minutes	Star like object going into faster than light travel.	8/10/18
7/14/18 22:00	Bradford	IA	USA	Unknown	Seconds	Strange sound.	3/21/19
7/2/18 00:50	Ankeny	IA	USA	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	USA	Circle	30 seconds	2 greenish yellow circles.	6/21/18
6/6/18 18:37	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Oval	:30	Bright object floating eastward near sunset over central Iowa	2/16/18
1/29/18 03:00	Pella	IA	USA	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	USA	Triangle	2+ minutes	Pyramid hovering.	1/12/18
12/17/17 01:35	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Flash	2-3 seconds	Bright double flash outside.	12/21/17
11/21/17 23:00	Williamsburg	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Triangle	10 seconds	Triangular shaped craft on Nov. 8, 2017. ((anonymous reports))	1/4/19
11/4/17 12:30	Des moines	IA	USA	Other	Not sure	Was at stop light looked up seen hole in clouds. Snaped a few pixs. Later looked and seen something in first pix.	12/19/21
11/3/17 04:15	Norwalk	IA	USA		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	USA	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	USA	Fireball	35 seconds	Slow moving red fireball over Omaha.	11/3/17
10/19/17 01:15	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Oval	1 minute	ufo seen in Keokuk Iowa	10/5/17
9/25/17 02:15	Colfax	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	30-45 seconds	Bright orange light moving slowly overhead.	9/21/17
9/7/17 12:15	Nashua	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	15 minutes	Light in the sky that randomly changed color.	1/4/19
8/7/17 22:03	Moorland	IA	USA	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	USA	Sphere	10 minutes	Glowing reddish orange orb seen.	8/4/17
7/27/17 22:43	Clinton	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Circle	10 seconds	2 Red lights seen over small Iowa town, then disappeared!	7/14/17
7/6/17 22:00	Marshalltown	IA	USA	Fireball	10 seconds	Orange/red light seen on west side of town.	7/7/17
7/5/17 00:00	Sioux City	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	2.5 minutes	Lights over eastern Dubuque	7/7/17
6/10/17 11:00	Croton	IA	USA	Light	5 minutes	I have never seen anything like this before	6/15/17
6/4/17 22:00	West Des Moines	IA	USA	Disk	20 minutes	((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information. PD))	6/9/17
6/4/17 00:30	Lake View	IA	USA	Sphere	3 minutes	Orange sphere in the sky, changing speed and direction.	6/9/17
5/14/17 23:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Circle	15 minutes	Bright red object spotted above north side of Des Moines	4/20/17
4/10/17 01:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Light	2 minutes	BRIGHT ORANGE BALL TURNS TO DISC LIKE UFO.	4/13/17
4/4/17 00:00	Manchester	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Triangle	3 seconds	Three lights in a triangular formation.	2/17/17
2/9/17 20:30	Adel	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	2 minutes	Orange lights over the Quad Cites.	12/5/16
11/13/16 05:00	Bagley	IA	USA	Other	20 minutes	Falling Stars and Cloaked Sightings.	12/5/16
11/11/16 21:50	Jasper County	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	30 seconds	Green light and green ring.	12/5/16
11/10/16 21:53	Eldora	IA	USA	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
11/7/16 06:03	Creston	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Oval	5 minutes	Orange oval light moving north then south	9/15/16
9/1/16 04:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	Unknown	3 seconds	Bright light West of Marshalltown, IA.	9/2/16
8/1/16 19:27	Dubuque	IA	USA	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	USA	Unknown	4 minutes	White dimming object north of Cedar Falls Mall.	7/15/16
7/11/16 22:25	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	3-4 minutes	Unkown amber pulsating light	7/8/16
7/3/16 00:00	Dyersville	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	<2 minutes	Strange orange light appeared and mysteriously disappeared above clouds immediately.	7/8/16
6/11/16 11:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Sphere	1 minute	Chrome sphere near ammunition plant.	6/24/16
5/15/16 22:30	Robins	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Sphere	10 minutes	5 spheres moving in formation.	4/15/16
3/5/16 23:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Flash	5 minutes	5 bright flashes in different spots in clear night sky.	3/11/16
2/27/16 20:00	Sioux City	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Fireball	5 minutes	Large orange fireball moved across the sky from north to south.	1/29/16
1/14/16 21:10	Marion	IA	USA	Fireball	3 minutes	Burning fireball traveling fast over Marion, Iowa, towards the northeast.	1/29/16
1/13/16 22:15	Cedar Falls	IA	USA	Fireball	10 minutes	Red/Orange sphere seen descending over Cedar Falls/North Cedar.	1/14/16
1/5/16 21:45	Windsor Heights	IA	USA	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	USA	Formation	<5 seconds	6 bright orange lights in 2 vertical lines of 3.	1/8/16
12/4/15 21:00	Charles City	IA	USA	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	USA	Triangle	7-8	V shaped dark object traveling East SE at approx 250 MPH.	11/26/15
11/19/15 20:30	Ames	IA	USA	Triangle	<1 minute	Gliding V-shaped object with lights	11/20/15
11/14/15 19:40	Carroll	IA	USA	Triangle	4 seconds	Seemingly undetectable triangle craft detected briefly over Carroll, Iowa.	11/19/15
11/13/15 22:30	Davenport	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Unknown	10 minutes	Unknown craft observed with red blinking lights	10/29/15
10/18/15 08:00	Dubuque	IA	USA	Fireball	10 minutes	Orange fiery globes, travelling in the same path	10/29/15
10/11/15 23:00	Sioux City	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	2-3 seconds	Bright light in the sky.	10/16/15
9/29/15 21:00	Cedar Falls	IA	USA	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	USA	Unknown	5 minutes	Blue light, then followed by a bright flash, before disappearing.	9/29/15
9/26/15 23:15	Maryville	IA	USA	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
9/25/15 20:00	Des Moines	IA	USA		30 seconds	Orb going across the sky	9/9/22
9/15/15 21:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Circle	12 minutes	Bright orange lights moving from NW to SE very slowly	8/27/15
8/15/15 21:42	Ames	IA	USA	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	USA	Sphere	~1 hour	Slow-moving to the north, with red flashing lights.	8/13/15
8/6/15 23:15	Newton	IA	USA	Diamond	45 seconds	A bright light just appeared.	8/13/15
8/4/15 21:40	Centerville	IA	USA	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	USA	Circle	1.5 minutes	Round/circular orange object, north to south.	8/6/15
7/30/15 12:37	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Formation	Hour	Question Mark Formation in the East.	8/6/15
7/20/15 00:00	Centerville	IA	USA	Fireball	2 minutes	Fireball transformed to bird with fire wings and fire tail.	8/13/15
7/18/15 22:20	Council Bluffs	IA	USA	Sphere	1 second	Bright white orb seen from Madison Ave..	7/23/15
7/13/15 23:00	Dubuque	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA			((NUFORC Note: No information provided by the source. PD))	6/5/15
5/26/15 23:30	Sanborn	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Sphere	4 seconds	Ball of light, strange maneuvering, disappeared.	5/22/15
4/27/15 21:15	Manchester	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	90 seconds	Bright flying object. no sound. bright flash.	4/8/15
4/1/15 20:00	Fredericksburg	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	1 minute	Bright lights in the night sky going really fast.	4/3/15
3/7/15 22:00	Coralville	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	5 minutes	Strange, lighted object in Cedar Rapids	2/6/15
1/26/15 17:29	Fort Dodge	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	6 minutes	Lights hovering.	12/18/14
12/12/14 17:30	Sioux City	IA	USA	Other	180 seconds	Silent Matte Black Square.	12/18/14
12/3/14 06:50	Colwell	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	30 minutes	Bright red and orange lights and rapid chaotic movement.	11/6/14
10/21/14 00:10	Ankeny	IA	USA	Triangle	05 seconds	Amber lit triangle passes above Ankeny,IA.	11/6/14
10/18/14 23:00	Marion	IA	USA	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	USA	Triangle	>15 minutes	Possible UFO Sighting in Iowa, October 9, 2014.	10/10/14
10/8/14 21:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Disk	~1 minute	Fast flying UFO.	10/10/14
10/8/14 18:58	Hedrick	IA	USA	Unknown	6 minutes	Light.	10/10/14
10/8/14 05:21	Chariton	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Other	3-5 minutes	Bow Tie shaped craft near Montrose, Iowa.	9/25/14
9/7/14 23:31	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	Oval	10 seconds	Orange oval.	9/5/14
9/4/14 21:11	Iowa City	IA	USA	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	USA	Chevron	3 minutes	Sabula, Iowa, chevron shaped craft.	9/5/14
8/31/14 20:50	Bettendorf	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Diamond	1 minute	Square, didn't move, low flying, solid.	8/29/14
8/26/14 22:00	Bettendorf	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	West Branch	IA	USA	Cylinder	6 minutes	3 red lights 1 bright white one and 1 dim white one.	7/5/14
7/4/14 22:00	Dubuque	IA	USA	Fireball	1 minute	Fireball shot across the sky with a Northern trajectory.	7/11/14
7/4/14 21:30	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	Fireball	5-10 minutes	Orange circles that appeared within, I think, the other.	9/6/19
6/20/14 21:25	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Chevron	2 minutes	Chevron shape with red and green lights flying in odd patterns.	6/24/14
6/19/14 22:00	Lenox	IA	USA		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	USA	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	USA	Disk	1 minute	Large silent dark object in sky producing strange cloud behaviour.	6/20/14
6/6/14 21:45	Ankeny	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Fireball	1 minute	Red/Orange fireball craft over North Liberty, IA.	6/4/14
5/31/14 22:36	Polk City	IA	USA	Circle	2 minutes	Fireball UFO seen over Big Creek in Polk City, Iowa.	6/4/14
5/26/14 01:08	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	2-3 minutes	Amber light.	5/2/14
4/12/14 21:21	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Circle	5 minutes	Two crafts spotted above Cedar Rapids.	4/18/14
4/12/14 21:21	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Disk	5 minutes	White/blue/green object and orange objects flying fast and changing direction too quickly.	4/18/14
4/10/14 21:30	Burlington	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Sphere	1 minute	Two amber colored orbs moving together.	4/4/14
3/29/14 10:50	Des Moines	IA	USA	Chevron	5 seconds	5 orange lights in a chevron shape	4/4/14
3/28/14 18:30	Riverside	IA	USA	Fireball	10 seconds	Fireball seen in rual Riverside Iowa	4/4/14
3/15/14 22:00	Ankeny	IA	USA	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	USA	Disk	33 seconds	Disc shaped object flashing red and blue lights.	3/18/14
3/10/14 04:00	Ainsworth	IA	USA	Triangle	3 minutes	TRIANGLE CRAFT SEEN AGAIN IN AINSWORTH!	3/18/14
2/9/14 19:37	Clinton	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Triangle	3 minutes	TRIANGLE OBJECTS HOVERING IN CORNFIELD.	12/23/13
11/30/13 20:00	Arlington	IA	USA	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	USA	Formation	1 minute	Orange lights in a spread formation.	12/2/13
11/17/13 01:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	Sphere	2 minutes	Large red/orange sphere seen above Des Moines, Ia.	11/20/13
11/16/13 20:30	West Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	2 minutes	20+ flying objects in Des Moines Iowa.	11/20/13
11/15/13 21:20	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Triangle	4 seconds	Transparent triangle object heading southeast.	11/11/13
10/28/13 04:00	Lake City	IA	USA	Light	1 hour	odd moving light in the sky	11/11/13
10/25/13 22:15	Waukee	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Triangle	1 minutes	Triangular aircraft with yellow and red lights.	11/11/13
10/13/13 23:30	Sheldon	IA	USA	Circle	5 minutes	Ashton, Iowa sighting.	10/23/13
10/13/13 18:57	Council Bluffs	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Other	2 hours	Moving lights in the sky seen in different variations.	9/30/13
9/21/13 22:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Light	10 minutes	Orange/red lights hover over Des Moines.	9/30/13
9/21/13 19:30	Bettendorf	IA	USA	Circle	30 minutes	No sound just bright light and movement faster than planes	9/30/13
9/14/13 14:00	Hiawatha	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	5 minutes	3 glowing red lights made formations and disappeared.	9/9/13
8/27/13 21:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Sphere	3 minutes	Fiery orbs/ spheres seen on two seperate occasions.	8/30/13
8/22/13 10:00	Fort Dodge	IA	USA	Circle	10 seconds	Bright white light disapeered away from the earth.	8/30/13
8/16/13 22:30	Dubuque	IA	USA	Oval	10 minutes	Beautiful orange lights that moved without any sound	8/30/13
8/13/13 23:30	Fort Dodge	IA	USA	Cigar	Few seconds	A Glimpse of Rarity.	8/30/13
8/13/13 23:00	Dubuque	IA	USA	Triangle	10 seconds	Lights hovering next to Dubuque bridge.	9/10/14
8/5/13 21:18	Dike	IA	USA	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	USA	Cylinder	1 minute	Flattened cylinder with blue glow	8/30/13
8/3/13 21:30	Dyersville	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	30 minutes	Mysterious light in the Western sky. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD))	9/9/13
8/1/13 18:00	Winterset	IA	USA	Formation	unknown	3 lights in perfect formation	12/23/13
7/28/13 22:35	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Light	30 seconds	Slow white glow across sky in 20 seconds	8/30/13
7/26/13 20:00	Key West, Dubuque	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	15	Lights circling over Iowa.	8/30/13
7/17/13 22:45	Iowa Cuty	IA	USA	Triangle	10:00	This was not a human craft!	7/22/13
7/14/13 23:00	Davenport	IA	USA	Fireball	10 minutes	Fleet of "fireball" type ufo seen!	7/22/13
7/14/13 22:15	Mason City	IA	USA	Fireball	3 minutes	Slow moving orange/fireball.	8/30/13
7/11/13 23:00	Clarksville	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Sphere	90 seconds	Solid Sphere observed over Viking Lake State Park.	7/3/13
6/22/13 23:00	Creston	IA	USA	Light	10 seconds	Large white light moving quickly west to east	7/3/13
6/19/13 23:49	Stuart	IA	USA	Light	4 seconds	Green moving light.	7/3/13
6/17/13 23:00	Waterloo	IA	USA	Fireball	5 minutes	Glowing orange, orb like, fireball	7/3/13
6/16/13 22:30	Sioux City	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Cigar	2 minutes	Red white and green	7/3/13
6/1/13 09:30	Palo	IA	USA	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	USA	Triangle	2 minutes	2 Triangle shaped crafts with red lights over Ainsworth, Iowa.	6/2/13
5/10/13 21:09	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Flash	5-10 minutes	Flashes after thundersnow, coworker is missing.	5/15/13
4/28/13 23:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	30 minutes	Bright light in Iowa sky	5/15/13
4/13/13 05:25	Webster City	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Fireball	3 minutes	Bright Orange Fireball near Arcadia, Iowa	8/30/13
2/12/13 21:25	Knoxville	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	7 minutes	Observed large multicolored twinking light hovering in western horizon which disappeared after 7 minutes.	2/4/13
1/9/13 17:20	Wheatland	IA	USA	Light	7 minutes	Large bright multicolored twinkling light just above western horizon.	2/4/13
1/6/13 18:35	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	Circle	8 minutes	2 star like lights traveling slowly across cedar rapids sky.	2/4/13
1/4/13 03:30	Eldridge	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Unknown	A while	Lights on southern horizon	12/21/12
12/20/12 06:45	Legrand	IA	USA	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	USA			Adult female witnesses the blue flash.	12/21/12
12/20/12 03:15	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA			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	USA	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	USA	Circle	3 minutes	White orb dissapears into night.	12/20/12
12/8/12 06:15	Des Moines	IA	USA	Light	1-2 seconds	Fast moving silver light	12/20/12
12/7/12 18:40	Eldridge	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Circle	1 minute	Bright orange/yellow with red trim circular fast moving quiet light.	11/19/12
11/8/12 21:30	Paton	IA	USA	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	USA	Unknown	5 minutes	Very loud, invisible, and flying very low	11/19/12
11/6/12 20:35	Evansdale	IA	USA	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	USA	Fireball	10 minutes	3 Bright Red Lights in a Triangle Formation	11/19/12
11/3/12 22:00	Mount Vernon	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Cylinder	10 minutes	One rotating blade (but rotated very, very slow). No sound.	10/30/12
9/26/12 20:00	Vinton	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Oval	10 minutes	Shiny oval objects no wings and no sound	9/24/12
9/8/12 22:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	Formation	12:00 am	Huge formation with many smaller formations. Some brighter than others.	9/24/12
8/26/12 23:00	Bondurant	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Chevron	2 minutes	No sound, no trail, fast to appear slow to leave.	1/7/15
8/13/12 21:00	Cedar Falls	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA		30 minutes	Lights spinning in circles and flashing morse code like signals.	8/19/12
8/7/12 22:35	Iowa City	IA	USA	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	USA	Fireball	seconds	Large ball of light sighted above rooftops.	8/19/12
8/5/12 05:55	Decorah	IA	USA	Triangle	1-2 minutes	Super large boomerang solid lighted object moving very fast.	8/5/12
8/5/12 05:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	Disk	2 minutes	Disk-shaped object seen above treeline	8/5/12
7/29/12 11:00	Winterset	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Changing	2 minutes	Unexplained reddish orange light over Marshalltown IA	8/5/12
7/13/12 01:24	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	2 minutes	orange glowing object in clear black sky amazing speed	7/4/12
6/24/12 12:45	Bondurant	IA	USA	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	USA	Fireball	90 seconds	Two witness one amber fireball track south over the Quad Cities	7/4/12
6/19/12 22:45	Bettendorf	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Triangle	~2 minutes	Triangle shaped object called by military helicopters.	4/29/16
6/8/12 20:55	Perry	IA	USA	Light	2-3 minutes	Large sphere of light seen going over Perry, Iowa.	6/14/12
6/6/12 06:00	Lemars	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	5-6 minutes	Dancing BRIGHT BRIGHT white orbs in the night sky.	6/5/12
6/2/12 23:00	Hazelton	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	About a Min.	Two lights seen flying overhead.	5/29/12
5/23/12 03:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Triangle	1-2 minutes	Transparent triangular shaped object	6/14/12
5/4/12 22:35	Cedar Falls	IA	USA	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	USA	Disk	12 seconds	Ultra-sonic disk	5/13/12
4/24/12 21:45	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	1 min	Bright lighjt manuevers over Iowa sky.	5/13/12
4/11/12 20:00	Ames	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	1 to 2 min.	Lights in the sky over Dysart, Iowa.	4/18/12
4/9/12 21:45	Dysart	IA	USA	Light	1 to 2 minutes	Bright lights in the sky over dysart ia.	4/18/12
4/2/12 21:30	Ames	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Flash	3 seconds	Bright blue/white flash north/northwest of Huxley, IA	1/12/12
1/6/12 20:45	Gilmore City	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	2 hours	Lights moving in a circular motion	1/12/12
12/29/11 20:00	Cedar Falls	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA		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	USA	Other	2 min	Strange ball of light moving slowly across central Iowa.	1/12/12
12/14/11 12:30	Spencer	IA	USA	Sphere	30seconds	Green light ufo	6/20/12
11/14/11 18:05	Lafayette	IA	USA	Light	15 seconds approx.	Stationary High-Magnitude Light Dimming Out	12/12/11
11/5/11 19:00	Muscatine	IA	USA	Light	>15 minutes	Bright orange lights moving slow across the sky.	12/12/11
10/29/11 21:30	Mingo	IA	USA	Circle	2 min	Saw a UFO landing on 10/29/2011	12/12/11
10/20/11 21:15	Muscatine	IA	USA	Light	3 min.	five bright yellow lights leading huge craft	10/25/11
10/15/11 20:05	Muscatine	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	90 seconds	An unexplained, unidentified flying object.	12/12/11
9/30/11 11:36	Ames	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Formation	Unknown	Ten lights in a strange formation moving east over I235	10/10/11
9/4/11 21:32	Waterloo	IA	USA	Circle	50s	4 large orange orbs moving across sky	10/10/11
9/4/11 20:45	Tama	IA	USA	Fireball	1 minute	A fiery Red Orb like ball floated through the sky.	10/10/11
9/2/11 20:45	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	Other	3 minutes	Bright organge light- goes off and looks atom-shaped.	10/10/11
8/25/11 00:31	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Formation	20 minutes	Triangle UFOs in formation around the New Highschool	8/7/11
7/30/11 21:10	Dubuque	IA	USA	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	USA	Oval	1:00	Orange glowing ball moving slow powerd by jet like flame	8/7/11
7/23/11 15:30	Council Bluffs	IA	USA	Triangle	2min	Object over council bluffs ia	8/7/11
7/21/11 11:00	Fairfield	IA	USA	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	USA	Triangle	3 minutes	TRIANGLE FORMATION LIGHTS OVER CHURCH ANKENY, IOWA	3/18/14
7/10/11 10:06	Bettendorf	IA	USA	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	USA	Circle	3 minutes	2 red/orange spheres moving slowly appeared in des moines iowa.	7/17/11
7/3/11 23:40	Waterloo	IA	USA	Light	1 minute	Red light in the sky over Waterloo, IA	7/4/11
6/28/11 20:00	Ames	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Triangle	2.5 hours	Triangle observed hovering over davenport near regional airport	6/3/11
5/20/11 23:00	Sherrill	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Unknown	unknown	I have a picture.	5/12/11
5/3/11 21:30	Davenport	IA	USA	Egg	10min	Bright Light over Davenport, Iowa.	5/12/11
3/30/11 00:00	Floyd	IA	USA	Disk	30 min	Unusual movement of unusually lit craft over Iowa farm field.	4/3/11
3/21/11 00:55	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	Circle	3 minuets	round shaped object with wing at top	3/23/11
3/14/11 21:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	Triangle	10 seconds	Triangular aircraft with white and red lights.	1/31/11
1/4/11 17:15	Woodward	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	a few minutes	2 Bright Lights in Des Moines Iowa	1/5/11
11/10/10 09:00	Belle Plaine	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	8-10min	Bright orange orb quickly passing close by without sound.	11/21/10
10/12/10 22:30	Waterloo	IA	USA	Light	2-3 minutes	Orange orb came close.	12/23/13
10/5/10 19:00	De Soto	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Other	2 hours	northeast sky colors flickering	11/21/10
10/2/10 02:12	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Circle	2-3 minutes	UFO over Cedar Rapids	11/21/10
9/7/10 02:30	Mt. Pleasant	IA	USA	Triangle	120	Triangular craft moving very fast in odd directions.	11/21/10
8/28/10 11:45	Des Moines	IA	USA	Light	Aprox. 10 minutes	Solid and silent red light flying over Des Moines, Iowa.	11/21/10
8/27/10 21:30	Hiawatha	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Unknown	5 mins	Triangular/V-shape UFO spotted over North East Iowa.	8/24/10
7/19/10 22:20	Merrill	IA	USA	Diamond	2 minitues	Red/Bluish colored lights over Merrill Rural Areas.	7/28/10
7/17/10 23:00	Boone	IA	USA	Disk	30 min	Flying obects in ia sky	7/19/10
7/16/10 22:12	Carter Lake	IA	USA	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	USA	Changing	10 seconds	A green heat light traveling east to west.	7/10/10
7/4/10 22:15	Polk City	IA	USA	Disk	10 Minutes	Unusual light in sky 7/4/10 from Saylorville campground.	7/19/10
7/4/10 21:55	Polk City	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	15 seconds	Strange disappearing/re-appearing object over Sioux city	7/6/10
6/24/10 22:15	Waukee	IA	USA	Light	120seconds	Bright Zig-Zagging Light over Des Moines, 6/24/10	7/6/10
6/17/10 20:00	Perry	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Disk	unknown	Campo Colorado tornado photo	7/6/10
5/29/10 22:44	Iowa City	IA	USA	Changing	:30	Iowa city group of lights	6/3/10
5/29/10 22:30	Fonda	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Flash	5 seconds	UFO Crashland in Fort Madison Iowa high school football field	4/13/10
3/3/10 07:10	Fairfield	IA	USA	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	USA	Sphere	15 minutes	A UFO was seen to the north of our house.	4/13/10
2/13/10 03:05	Davenport	IA	USA	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	USA	Other	15 minutes	Witness soundless flickering lights moving NE in the clouds above.	2/14/10
1/20/10 07:45	Walnut	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Flash	1	Lights in the sky south of downtown sioux city	12/12/09
11/1/09 16:15	Ottumwa	IA	USA	Sphere	30 mins	round reflective object	12/12/09
10/20/09 23:00	Ottumwa	IA	USA	Light	5 mins	flashing light	12/12/09
10/8/09 23:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Fireball	4 seconds	Fireball or (meteor?) Might be something stranger. ((anonymous report))	12/1/19
10/4/09 20:45	Eldridge	IA	USA	Light	5 Minutes	Bright orange object seen flying E/SE out of atmosphere.	12/12/09
9/25/09 21:15	Spencer	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	until sunrise	Bright fflashing ufo.	12/12/09
9/9/09 20:45	Ames	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Teardrop	2 minutes times 2	Two Slow Flying Fireballs Within Seven Minutes	12/12/09
9/2/09 21:41	Keokuk	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Rectangle	6 sec	Large, horizontal, whitish rectangle seen during the day.	2/23/11
8/11/09 21:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA			Bright white light in the sky that got brighter, turned red and was gone.	8/5/09
7/17/09 10:00	Waterloo	IA	USA	Fireball	7 minutes	4 Fireball-like UFO Seen in Waterloo Iowa, July 2009	12/12/09
7/14/09 04:30	Dow City	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	5 minutes	clinton, iowa ufo sigthing	8/5/09
7/2/09 00:00	Spencer	IA	USA	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	USA	Triangle	30 minutes	They made a triangular formation.	8/5/09
6/18/09 18:30	Arlington	IA	USA	Light	4 minutes	just a glowing on and off light that suddenly darted.	1/31/11
5/15/09 17:00	Dubuque	IA	USA	Circle	5 - 10 seconds	Red glowing ball taking off before thunderstorm arrived on location	2/14/10
5/2/09 03:30	Ames	IA	USA	Light	1 hour	Craft making 90 degree jagged cuts.	5/12/09
4/24/09 22:19	Dubuque	IA	USA	Unknown	30-35 Seconds	((HOAX??)) All I could think was "OH ((deleted))!!"	5/12/09
4/20/09 04:55	Graettinger	IA	USA	Other	5 minutes	Palo Alto County Iowa 5 minute durating	5/12/09
4/6/09 21:00	Clive	IA	USA	Sphere	3 seconds	veering shooting star?	4/14/09
3/19/09 06:20	Waukee	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	10 secs	Fast moving light over nightime Webster city.	4/14/09
3/16/09 21:30	Dubuque	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Sphere	20 min	Bright white sphere pulsing to a amber color	3/19/09
1/23/09 19:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Flash	very short	Very fast moving light(green), south of Perry, IA	1/10/09
12/28/08 23:30	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	Triangle	12/28/08	Tringlar lights over Langdon	1/10/09
12/20/08 17:00	Iowa City	IA	USA	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	USA	Triangle		A bright light 10:25 faded out.	1/10/09
11/28/08 23:15	Sioux City	IA	USA	Oval	2-3 Minute	Rounded UFO Near Grandview Park in Sioux City	1/10/09
11/25/08 18:30	New Hampton	IA	USA	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	USA	Teardrop	1-2 minutes	a teardrop	1/10/09
10/28/08 17:55	Iowa City	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	35 min	Over Waterloo viewed from Dewar and Oelwein	10/31/08
8/23/08 21:40	Fort Dodge	IA	USA	Fireball	5 to 7 minutes	Strange pulsing fireball low on the horizon.	10/31/08
8/15/08 00:00	Urbandale	IA	USA	Light	2 hours plus	Changing colors of lights above city.	10/31/08
8/4/08 21:30	Des Moines	IA	USA	Fireball	15 seconds	Red light over Des Moines, Iowa vewed from Mitchellville, Iowa.	8/12/08
8/3/08 16:42	Sioux City	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA			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	USA	Fireball	10 seconds	Flamelike UFO seen in Waterloo, IA	1/10/09
7/17/08 23:15	Urbandale	IA	USA	Unknown	30 seconds	Five Intense Beams of Light	8/12/08
7/7/08 21:20	Eldridge	IA	USA	Triangle	30-60 seconds	Small triangle shaped lights moving through sky.	8/12/08
7/4/08 13:30	Eldora	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	FEW MINUTES	BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT MOVING ACROSS SKY SEEN ON THREE OCASSIONS	7/5/08
5/20/08 01:00	Country Side	IA	USA	Fireball		Two Brothers See Red Orbs Flying in Sky at Back Road CampSite.	10/10/11
4/25/08 23:51	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Light	hour	Blood-red orb being chased by multiple jets.	3/31/08
2/19/08 19:10	Smithland	IA	USA	Sphere	2 min	bright blue sphere near Smithland, IA	3/4/08
1/17/08	Altoona	IA	USA	Oval	2 min	strange oval mettalic ufo	1/21/08
12/29/07 22:15	Altoona	IA	USA	Unknown	five minutes	strange pulsing light over Altoona Iowa	3/4/08
11/23/07 22:03	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	Circle	5 seconds	I want to believe.....	4/17/08
10/25/07 22:30	Marion	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Chevron	2	Strange, Swift, 'Geese'.	11/28/07
10/9/07 23:00	Pella	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Unknown	unknown	five orange blinking lights	10/8/07
9/17/07 23:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Unknown	About a half hour	Green lit-up horizon with saucer like flying object.	8/12/08
9/14/07 05:50	Bettendorf	IA	USA	Triangle	4 minutes	Tiangular 3 white lighted object hovering with no sound	10/8/07
9/13/07 20:45	Keokuk	IA	USA		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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Triangle	15 MINUTES	WHILE I WAS GOING TO AN INDIAN RESTAURANT I SAW A TRIANGLER SHAPED OBJECT.	10/31/08
8/18/07 12:00	Waterloo	IA	USA	Oval	5 Minutes	A shiny silver object floating stationary then made tight but short movements.	4/22/22
7/31/07 22:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Diamond	3-4 minutes	Two silent objects over public backup water supply.	11/11/13
7/23/07 04:15	Cascade	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Triangle	5 Minutes +	Orange Triangular Craft in Pursuit	8/7/07
6/26/07 21:00	Rockwell City	IA	USA	Fireball	21:09	Fire Ball	3/4/08
6/21/07 23:00	Correctionville	IA	USA	Triangle	3 min	triangular shape with 2 lights streaming off. ((NUFORC Note: ISS?? PD))	8/7/07
6/20/07 21:56	Albia	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Changing	20-30 sec.	Shape Changing Tube or Rod with Pursuing Military Jets?	6/12/07
5/15/07 23:40	Davenport	IA	USA	Triangle	5-8 minutes	Pyramid constilation UFO slowly move across night sky	4/18/12
5/2/07 03:10	Bettendorf	IA	USA	Unknown	3 - 5 minutes	Fats moving, pulsating lights	6/12/07
4/23/07 11:12	Des Moines	IA	USA	Circle	10min	Hazed lights traveling dew north in a clockwise position.	6/12/08
4/23/07 00:00	Marion	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Other	3to4 min	Blinking lights moving several different directions.	4/27/07
3/10/07 18:20	DeWitt	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Cigar	30 minutes	Power outage, flash of light and two soundless hovering craft	2/24/07
2/4/07 20:00	Bettendorf	IA	USA	Unknown	10 seconds	Fireball, illuminating as dropping to ground 30 degrees inclination from horizontal	2/24/07
1/31/07 01:45	Burlington	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Chevron	57 minutes	the object darted around until it went over the horizon	2/1/07
1/8/07 15:56	Otley	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Circle	45 seconds	3 orange donut shaped objects	2/1/07
1/1/07 00:11	Cedar Falls	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Other	30 seconds	silent objest with rippling effect	12/7/06
11/19/06 20:02	Hartley	IA	USA	Unknown	1 min	5 liights in southern sky	3/8/07
11/7/06 20:30	Stratford	IA	USA	Unknown	10 minutes	Huge spinning yellow orange lights in the Central Iowa sky.	12/7/06
10/24/06 22:00	Fort Dodge	IA	USA	Triangle	Three hours	Iowa UFO invasion!	10/30/06
10/1/06 17:00	Algona	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Flash	A few seconds	Wierd flash of light	10/30/06
8/27/06 00:30	Winterset	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Cigar	5-10mins	Bright White/Sliver Cigar Shaped Craft sighted Iowa	10/30/06
8/5/06 17:40	Waterloo	IA	USA	Cigar	4.5 minutes	White Cigar Shaped Craft seen over Waterloo, Iowa	10/30/06
7/25/06 04:31	Urbandale	IA	USA	Light	6 seconds	Bright light	10/30/06
7/22/06 03:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	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	USA	Light	20 min	Unexplained object floating across the night sky	6/12/07
7/14/06 23:30	Harpers Ferry	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Rectangle	2 mins.	Strange object passing through Muscatine	7/16/06
5/22/06 21:35	Coralville	IA	USA	Oval	1 sec	a light and movement that I have never seen before	7/16/06
5/14/06 01:45	Newton	IA	USA	Light	10 minutes	Red dots in the sky	5/15/06
5/14/06 01:32	Newton	IA	USA	Light	about 10 mins	Red dots in mid air	5/15/06
5/7/06 21:30	Davenport	IA	USA	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
2/14/06 08:30	Urbandale	IA	USA	Teardrop	1 min	Object re-entering atmosphere...slowly	3/11/06
2/8/06 20:15	Manilla	IA	USA	Light	15 Seconds	I believe we are being watched here.	2/14/06
2/7/06 20:00	Manilla	IA	USA	Light	15 Seconds	Strange lights in Iowa skies	2/14/06
12/22/05 21:40	Osceola	IA	USA	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	USA	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
12/18/05 18:45	Council Bluffs	IA	USA	Triangle	3:00 Mins	Traveling from Omaha to Des moines I witnessed a triangle object near interstate	2/14/06
11/22/05 19:40	Norwalk	IA	USA	Cigar	15 MINUTES	While I was at my barn in my pasture I saw white lights and a cigar object	3/11/06
11/7/05 17:00	Urbandale	IA	USA	Fireball	2 minutes	Witnessed Large Fireball at dusk was the size of a 50 cent piece held at arms length in the west.	11/8/05
10/28/05 08:00	Eldridge	IA	USA	Disk	30 seconds	MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP Report: I saw a bright circular metal object in the sky which seemed to hover.	12/12/09
10/27/05 00:00	Glidden	IA	USA	Triangle	5 hrs	((NUFORC Note: PSmall blinking color changing moving lights.	11/3/05
10/11/05 21:00	Wall Lake	IA	USA	Light	10 seconds	strange shit in the sky in sac county iowa.	10/20/05
10/6/05 18:00	Cedar Falls	IA	USA	Light	10min	RED LIGHT	10/11/05
10/6/05 06:00	Mason City	IA	USA	Light	5 minutes	strange flying object	10/20/05
10/5/05 23:00	West Des Moines	IA	USA	Cigar	5 Minutes	Object Hovering between 2-5,000 feet in the air. 4-5 Strobe lights in a row flashing in sequence. Object hovered without making a sou	10/11/05
10/4/05 20:15	Granger	IA	USA	Formation	15 seconds	six orange lights in formation over Granger, IA	10/11/05
9/24/05 05:30	Fort Madison	IA	USA	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
9/14/05 06:00	Muscatine	IA	USA	Fireball	5 Seconds	Fire ball in the western sky from Muscatine	10/11/05
9/14/05 05:50	Various counties	IA	USA	Fireball	5-7 Seconds	IOWA MUFON REPORT: Fireball/greenish light seen from various Iowa locations by many witnesses & reported to radio show.	10/20/05
9/11/05 21:03	West Des Moines	IA	USA	Light	3 seconds	Blue light that look about as bright as Venus streaked across the sky from the south to the north. I am in apartments sw of the I-235	10/11/05
9/10/05 21:00	Pocahontas	IA	USA	Light	45 secionds	bright white- blue light in northern Iowa skies	10/11/05
9/1/05 21:50	Boone	IA	USA	Chevron	2-3 min.	Slow moving boomerang moves across a Central Iowa town.	9/15/05
8/1/05 03:15	Ottumwa	IA	USA	Light	15 minutes	Star or planet - when seen in binoculars, five lights in a circle, one in the middle - flashing a rainbow of colours - moved miles East	9/2/05
7/27/05 23:15	Ottumwa	IA	USA	Rectangle	<1 minute	Rectangle-shaped craft - silhouette	9/2/05
7/24/05 22:10	Sheldon	IA	USA	Triangle	4 seconds	IOWA MUFONREPORT: Director, Beverly Trout, interviewed witness by phone re a sighting witness had reported to NUFORC.	10/20/05
7/24/05 22:10	Sheldon	IA	USA	Triangle	4 sec	Triangle shaped UFO observing thunderstorms	9/2/05
7/24/05 04:45	Fort Dodge	IA	USA	Triangle	1 min	Dark Triangle with 2 lights seen traveling towards thunderstorms	12/16/05
7/15/05 08:15	Iowa City (near, on I-380)	IA	USA	Sphere	10 minutes	Silent, slow moving black sphere flying near Iowa highway	3/11/06
7/2/05 03:30	Oskaloosa	IA	USA	Fireball	90 min	While sitting in the backyard with a friend. What appeared to be a star, slowly started decending toward the Southeast horizon.It slowl	7/5/05
6/30/05 04:30	Sioux city	IA	USA	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
6/25/05 21:30	Iowa (unspecified town)	IA	USA	Disk	3minutes	First object observed jumped from location to location instantly. Until it disappeared. The second object was moving fast, the obje	9/2/05
6/22/05 22:48	De Soto	IA	USA	Triangle	5 mins	3 lights defining a triangle shape moving slowly in a night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of U. S. Navy NOSS satellites. PD)	7/5/05
6/14/05 21:00	Council Bluffs	IA	USA	Triangle	30 seconds	Traingle UFO sighting clear veiw three witnesses and one stubborn person who wouldn't look	10/31/08
6/2/05 22:15	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Other	10 seconds	Object heading direct west moving about 3 times the speed of a plane, with one light flashing, jumping from position to position.	6/20/05
5/25/05 03:30	Mason City	IA	USA	Unknown	5 Minutes	didnt notice untill my friend asked me if i saw what he saw the object was in the sky very far away, may have been in space but couldn	6/20/05
5/10/05 15:00	Holstein	IA	USA	Unknown	unknown	Time manipulation after possible abduction. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes	7/17/11
4/26/05 23:00	Ottumwa	IA	USA	Triangle	<5 minutes	Note: I don't remember the exact time, but it was sometime between 10 PM and 12 AM I believe. I used to keep my window open before	9/2/05
4/14/05 11:56	Iowa City	IA	USA	Fireball	10 sec.	11.56 AM 4/14/05 LOCATION: SE of Iowa City - Iowa City Airport. Altitude perhaps 1000-1500 feet. Thin white object rapidly appears	4/16/05
4/9/05 01:43	Marshalltown	IA	USA	Circle	3-4 seconds	Large round glowing object falling to the South East.	4/16/05
4/7/05 01:30	Waukee/Clive	IA	USA	Circle	1 hour	Strange Light Circles Waukee/Clive Iowa	9/2/05
3/28/05 21:15	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Disk	1.5 minutes	Half-circle mooon shaped object with 5 brownish-oragneish colored lights on the bottom.	5/11/05
3/27/05 23:05	Cedar Falls	IA	USA	Light	10min	lights cedar falls	4/16/05
3/11/05 21:30	Des Moines	IA	USA	Disk	3 minutes (maybe)	Two objects leading a third, or was the two objects being followed ?	5/11/05
3/7/05 15:35	Mason City	IA	USA	Circle	5MIN	SAW A CIRCLE	5/11/05
3/1/05 17:50	DeWitt	IA	USA	Light	at lease 30 minutes	March 1, 2005 outside of Dewitt IA on I30, there were 6 lights grouped into 2 triangular configurations near the eastern horizon	4/16/05
2/16/05 23:00	Brighton	IA	USA	Triangle	one minute	dark triangle UFO, with three white lights and circle of red lights.	2/22/05
2/10/05 20:20	Coalville	IA	USA	Changing	3 seconds	Never saw a shape ,just three bright large lights .	2/22/05
2/2/05 13:23	Cedar Falls	IA	USA	Fireball	10MIN 3SEC	FIREBALL TYPE CRAFT SAW FOR 10 MIN 3 SEC	2/8/05
12/23/04 04:20	Malvern	IA	USA	Light	5 seconds	shooting star which stopped and suddenly shot upward	1/11/05
12/4/04 23:30	Sutherland	IA	USA	Light	30 min	A quiet light apeared to observe us as we were coon hunting near the river.	2/24/05
11/25/04 05:00	Ottumwa	IA	USA	Triangle	5 minutes	Triangular UFO w\red,blue lights,spinning clockwise,completely silent	12/3/04
10/31/04 19:15	Urbandale	IA	USA	Triangle	:15?	I witnessed a large, golden, triangular-shaped object hovering in the sky.	11/2/04
10/18/04 22:30	Des Moines (east of)	IA	USA	Light	approx. 1 min.	Seen from 29,000 ft-- two "stars" stared moving, parallel to one another, and abruptly stopped 15 sec. later. Faded out.	10/27/04
10/5/04 01:30	Keokuk	IA	USA	Chevron	30 sec	A V shaped formation of dim white lights moving west to east directly overhead quite high moving very fast.	11/9/04
9/22/04 23:30	Columbus Junction	IA	USA	Light	2-3 mins.	Distorted lights moving slowly at a high altitude then stopping for 20 to 30 sec. then slow orangish flash and their gone.	7/5/05
9/14/04 23:50	Carroll	IA	USA	Triangle	two minutes	triangle of light suddenly cruises past the stars in unison	9/29/04
9/7/04 21:00	Davenport	IA	USA		2 nights	Flashing sequences of lights ((NUFORC Note: Probably the star, "Sirius," in the NE sky, at present. PD))	9/9/04
8/20/04 20:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Triangle	10m	Triangle sighted on I-35 in Des Moines	9/1/04
8/19/04 20:30	Des Moines	IA	USA	Triangle	10 m	Lighted Triangle object hovers by major interstate	8/24/04
8/12/04 23:30	Reinbeck	IA	USA	Unknown	about 30 minutes	Erratic direction, light(s) faded and reappeared in Iowa. ((Jupiter??))	8/24/04
7/24/04 23:00	Sioux City	IA	USA	Light	15 minutes	Disappearing lights.	7/25/04
6/28/04 21:00	Waterloo	IA	USA	Rectangle	ten minutes	Strange triangle like plane that moved really really fast!	7/25/04
6/21/04 21:58	Ames	IA	USA	Unknown	6 min.	2 or 3 objects flashing lights that were red,blue,and white.The objects might have landed.	6/23/04
6/20/04 22:00	Albia	IA	USA	Other	10 minutes	Craft that changed from red to white to blue, and changed in shape. then darted out of sight.	6/23/04
6/16/04 13:00	Ames	IA	USA	Disk	3 min.	1 disk shape object	6/23/04
6/10/04 23:00	Manilla	IA	USA	Unknown	20 to 30 seconds	I saw 6 bright gold lights and then a flash of white light.	10/27/04
6/1/04 23:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Triangle	city park	The UFO was a dark shape, almost looking like a helicopter. I almost thought it was a helicopter until i noticed i couldn't hear any n	8/11/04
5/18/04 10:00	Cedar Falls	IA	USA	Oval	3 minutes	I was outside looking up in the sky when I noticed a oval white Halo bouncing about then it streamed acrossed the sky.As it came closer	6/4/04
4/30/04 03:00	Iowa City	IA	USA	Unknown	00:07	Glowing figure dividing until 7 were there, at 3 am	11/3/05
4/28/04 14:30	West Des Moines	IA	USA	Changing	2 minutes	Iowa Air National Guard and 727 watched by UFO in West Des Moines Iowa ((NUFORC Note: May not be a serious report. PD))	4/30/04
4/25/04 23:00	Muscatine	IA	USA	Changing	60mins.	3 lighted object ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus, we suspect. PD))	4/27/04
4/13/04 05:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Light	10 seconds	Two faint non-blinking lights traveling at high speed intersecting path of an aircraft (with the standard blinking lights)	4/27/04
4/8/04 21:00	Manly	IA	USA	Triangle	20 seconds	Black triangle, no lights, no sounds....	4/27/04
3/13/04 20:00	Woodbine	IA	USA	Light	23:00	Light hovered over several towns , it didn't seem to be a regular aircraft.	3/17/04
3/12/04 18:00	Rockwell City	IA	USA	Light	4 hours	Cluster of lights in the sky	3/23/04
2/27/04 03:11	Sioux City	IA	USA	Disk	20 minutes	Red flash and a flying saucer	3/2/04
2/20/04 00:00	Sioux City	IA	USA	Oval	5 minutes	I saw an oval shaped light fly across the sky going very fast and just before it disappeared there was a light coming out the front.	3/2/04
2/15/04 23:00	Elkader	IA	USA	Unknown	seconds	A strange creature or being....	3/23/04
2/10/04 22:30	Titonka	IA	USA	Teardrop	roughly 45 sec-1 min	We saw 3 white teardropped shape unidentified objects hovering in the sky for 45 sec to 1 min. on 2-10-04 22:30.	2/12/04
2/9/04 18:00	Wallingford (south of)	IA	USA	Fireball	matter of moments	A ball of blue-white fire rolls on the roadway, and kills my engine.	3/2/04
2/9/04 18:00	Wallingford	IA	USA	Fireball	Seconds	MUFON/IOWA REPORT: Investigated by Iowa MUFON, Beverly Trout. At 6:00 p.m. on 2/29/04 Blue-white fireball.	6/4/04
1/27/04 23:20	Vinton	IA	USA	Light	3 minutes	BRIGHT LIGHTS FAST MOVING IN THE SKY	1/31/04
1/20/04 00:00	Sioux City	IA	USA	Fireball	1 minute	I saw what looked like a fireball in the sky.	3/2/04
1/12/04 22:30	Truro	IA	USA	Triangle	20 mins	UFO seen by two well grounded college educated individuals	1/17/04
1/12/04 22:30	Truro	IA	USA	Triangle	2 minutes	MUFON/IOWA Report: 1/13/2004 3:25:05 AM 03:25. Investigated by Iowa MUFON,Beverly Trout and Pam Brackenbury.	6/4/04
12/28/03 18:41	Waterloo	IA	USA	Other	3 seconds	Very fast, silent, moving craft enveloped by vapor, @ about 8000 feet AGL traveling SW to NW then W	1/17/04
12/26/03 20:00	Preston	IA	USA	Oval	15 Minutes	Blue oval shaped transparent light w/o an apparent source with red lights flashing around it.	1/17/04
11/29/03 22:30	Waterloo (north of)	IA	USA	Fireball	30 seconds	Green fireball Sonic Boom felt	12/9/03
11/19/03 00:30	Fairfield	IA	USA	Triangle	2-3 minutes	observed triangle shaped object fly from north to south at slow speed making no noise. Corners were glowing triangles	11/26/03
11/19/03 00:30	Fairfield	IA	USA	Triangle	2-3 minutes	MUFON/IOWA FOLLOW-UP REPORT: Low-altitude triangle with triangular shaped pinkish-white lights at angles.	6/4/04
10/31/03 21:30	Granville	IA	USA	Cigar	3-4 mins	5 strange lights hoevering above ground	2/1/07
10/7/03 23:06	Waterloo	IA	USA	Teardrop	2 min	They had flashy lights	10/15/03
10/7/03 20:00	Urbandale	IA	USA	Formation	2 min	Formation of white lights moving in a random pattern in a northwesterly direction	10/31/03
10/7/03 19:30	Urbandale	IA	USA	Formation	5-6 minutes	MUFON/IOWA REPORT: VERY IMPORTANT - THIS IS ONE OF 3 SIGHTINGS ON THE SAME NIGHT AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME in Iowa.	1/17/04
10/7/03 19:30	Fairfield	IA	USA	Formation	25 seconds	MUFON/IOWA FOLLOW-UP REPORT: This Fairfield report of group of 5-6 lights is one of 3 reports at same time on same night in Iowa	1/17/04
10/7/03 19:30	Fairfield	IA	USA	Formation	20 seconds	Just after nightfall I observed a cluster of white blinking lights high overhead, moving steadily in a westerly direction.	10/15/03
9/19/03 20:00	Onawa	IA	USA	Changing	football game	a light that separated into three other ones, then a cross. Over 50 whitnesses!!, at fooball game.	9/24/03
9/8/03	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Changing	15 min	WE SEEN IT	9/17/03
8/31/03 22:30	Ryan	IA	USA	Light	approx. 4 seconds	Flying ball of light too large to be anything explainable, also too fast and flew in zig zag formation and appeard and dissapeard insky	9/4/03
8/19/03 05:15	Council Bluffs	IA	USA	Unknown	3-4 min.	This craft appeared as though it was waiting to be inspected, but was so close I couldn't see it all.	10/15/03
8/19/03 01:00	Council Bluffs	IA	USA	Disk	15 min.	It looked like it was gong slow because my car was movine same dorection but it was rilly moving along after I stoped	10/31/03
7/31/03 14:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Cigar	5-10 Seconds	Cloaking Cigar...	5/15/06
7/26/03 23:00	Davenport	IA	USA	Light	10-15 seconds	beautiful lights?	8/1/03
7/5/03 22:27	Clive	IA	USA	Teardrop	2-3 minutes	It was about 10:30. I had finished watching a TV show and i walked into my bedroom. When I walked into the room there was a blue and ye	7/16/03
7/4/03 02:30	Mapleton	IA	USA	Other	00:15	A stationary flashing object in the lower atmosphere	7/16/03
6/30/03 09:00	Iowa City	IA	USA	Oval	6 minutes	Bright silver object low in Summer morning sunlight.	7/16/03
6/21/03 22:30	Des Moines	IA	USA	Triangle	30 minutes	It was a triangular shaped craft withfour lights	4/27/04
5/30/03 23:33	Des Moines	IA	USA	Sphere	5 mins	3 spheres of multi-colors circled and shot straight up out of site.	6/3/03
5/30/03 22:00	Glenwood	IA	USA	Light	15 minutes	Strange lights running into eachother breaking off into more lights.	9/2/05
5/23/03 21:30	Webster City	IA	USA	Triangle	3 minutes	The following investigation details are result of Iowa MUFON's telephone and e-mail interviews with one of the three witnesses involved	7/16/03
5/23/03 21:30	Webster City	IA	USA	Triangle	3 minutes	Dark triangle shaped object moving slowly southwards with orange lights on each corner.	5/27/03
5/15/03 21:00	Council Bluffs	IA	USA	Changing	5 minutes	Small orange light morphing into large triangle(4-5 stories thick) with bright lights on underside	11/21/10
4/14/03 16:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Oval	3 min	Formation of five shiny metallic ovals	4/22/03
4/14/03 16:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Oval	3 minutes	The following is the result of an investigation by 3Iowa MUFON investigators into a sighting of 5 oval/disc shaped objects on April 14,	7/16/03
4/8/03 01:36	Dubuque	IA	USA	Light	5 seconds	Following is the result of 3 Iowa MUFON members' investigation of an incident reported to NUFORC on: 4/9/2003 3:04:06 PM 15:04. A d	7/16/03
4/8/03 01:30	Dubuque (County Highway 151)	IA	USA	Light	5 seconds	a very bright gold-bronze light appeared in front of my car and passed through and around the right side of the car.	4/22/03
2/1/03 09:00	Knoxville	IA	USA				3/21/03
1/17/03 09:00	Coralville	IA	USA	Oval	5 minutes	Single hovering oval object in clear blue sky along with 2 commercial jets leaving exhaust trails.	3/21/03
12/25/02 21:45	Anamosa	IA	USA	Light	10 seconds	small version of Orion's Belt.	3/21/03
11/23/02 17:15	Keystone (US 30 @)	IA	USA	Light	20 minutes	Shimmering bright white light 3X size of Venus. Dripping, a tail, and variable at times.	12/23/02
11/23/02 05:22	Swaledale	IA	USA	Circle	5 minutes	A moving circle of white light	12/23/02
11/1/02 17:00	Coralville	IA	USA	Light	10 minutes	5 lights form triangle near Coralville, Iowa	11/9/02
11/1/02 17:00	Coralville (East of)	IA	USA	Light	15 minutes	5 lights seen from I-80 near Coralville, Iowa	11/9/02
10/19/02 00:34	Story City	IA	USA	Triangle	5 seconds	Green triangle craft dropped out the sky and dissappeared.	10/28/02
9/19/02 16:00	Marion	IA	USA	Disk	3 minutes	i was on hole 2 at hunters ridge and i saw a shiney silver shaped suacer the top part was spinning and the bottom part was spinning a d	9/28/02
9/16/02 06:00	Johnston	IA	USA	Changing	30 min	High flying objects spotted on Interstate-80 in Iowa on Sept 16th 2007	10/8/07
9/8/02 23:30	Oskaloosa	IA	USA	Other	continuous	Stationary object with red, white and blue flashing lights.	9/13/02
9/1/02 23:00	Des moines	IA	USA	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
8/31/02 17:45	Davenport	IA	USA	Light	20 seconds	ET over Rock Island Nuclear Arsenal	10/27/04
8/11/02 00:20	Mt Ayr	IA	USA	Light	3 hours	Bright light, moving back and forth, raising up in sky with flashes of different colors	8/16/02
7/27/02 04:55	Holstein	IA	USA	Light	:00:15	shooting star look alike but didn't fade or travel in a straight line!	7/30/02
6/18/02 07:45	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Formation	1 minute	A formation of three black winged objects very high up was sighted on a clear morning.	7/26/02
4/21/02 04:00	Iowa	IA	USA	Changing	minutes?	Bright white translucent roundish object changed shape	4/25/02
3/27/02 15:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Sphere	5 minutes	spherical solid object bright white hovering high up in clear sky then moving slowly out of sight	4/8/02
3/16/02 20:20	Rolfe	IA	USA	Unknown	2 min.	4 lights in a row with 2 on the end at a angle at the end i think what the end was. all the lights went off an on for three or four tim	3/19/02
3/11/02 22:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Teardrop	5 minutes	It looked like a teardrop and kept dropping and rising back and forth in a diagnol pattern. My friend was standing next to me and saw	3/19/02
3/6/02 10:05	Des Moines	IA	USA	Oval		ufo hovering near interstste.	3/19/02
2/25/02 21:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Oval	5 MINS	FRIENDS AND I WERE OUTSIDE AND ALLLLLLL THE SUDDEN A HIGH PITCHED SOUND CAME OVER US AND WE TRIED EVERYTHING FOR THE SOUND TO GET BLOCK	3/19/02
2/25/02 21:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Oval	5 mins	i am walking then it comes over me then i fall asleep	3/19/02
1/17/02 22:00	Indianola	IA	USA	Light	5 seconds	i was sitting on my porch appx 950pm cst when i saw an object in the western sky zip past in the sky with no noise it was white in col	1/29/02
1/3/02 19:30	Marion	IA	USA	Unknown	still happening now	4 objects of flashing color over city of 30,000	1/11/02
1/3/02 19:30	Marion	IA	USA	Unknown	none	Marion sighting Info	1/17/04
1/3/02 19:15	Dubuque	IA	USA	Disk	Thursday	The UFO had light blue flashing lights, it was saucer-shaped and had a dome-like top on it and it acted like it wanted us to stop.	1/11/02
12/25/01 18:42	Sioux City/Omaha (between)	IA	USA	Disk	2 minutes	Driving to Omaha from Souix City south on I-29 between Missouri Valley and North Omaha exit going to Mormon Bridge. Wife asked what lig	1/11/02
12/25/01 18:42	Missouri Valley	IA	USA	Other	3 minutes	This is the follow-up investigation by Iowa MUFON State Director,Beverly Trout, of a sighting reported to NUFORC on 12/26/2001 at 12:36	5/14/02
12/15/01 20:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Triangle	4 minutes	I was driving to the store and when I turned onto county line road, I saw a huge triangle shape /_\ just like that,, In the middle ther	2/22/02
12/1/01 22:20	Sioux Center	IA	USA	Unknown	1 MIN. OR LESS	I WAS WATCHING TV WHEN I NOTICE 2 OBJECTS WITH BLUEISH@RED LIGHTS COMEING OVER THE ROOF OUTLINES OF THE HOUSES JUST SOUTH OF MY HOUSE.	12/5/01
10/31/01 20:35	Atlantic	IA	USA	Sphere	1-1.5 seconds	A glowing blue ball quickly passed in and out of low hazy clouds right above me.	11/20/01
10/28/01 01:20	Carlisle	IA	USA	Chevron	5 Seconds	Green Chevron Shaped Craft Drops from Sky and Disappears	11/20/01
10/14/01 21:03	Des Moines	IA	USA	Light	5 Seconds	Red ball of light plummits towards ground and dissapears.	11/20/01
10/10/01 21:15	Ottumwa	IA	USA	Rectangle	3-5 minutes	We saw a square object at night, which had 2 blue & 2 red lights at corners, hovering in sky above us.	11/20/01
10/10/01 03:00	Rockwell City	IA	USA	Triangle	4 min.s	Large,silent,slow,low to the ground dull-black Triangle UFO with round red lights at it's corners that were off .I drew it.	7/1/02
9/21/01 20:45	Milford	IA	USA	Rectangle	5 minutes	Large, bright white lights appear in a straight line and then disappear	10/12/01
9/6/01 03:00	Rockwell City	IA	USA	Triangle	4 min.s	A silent,slow,low to the ground,dull-black triangle craft with round unlit red lightes.	7/1/02
8/23/01 23:00	Ogden (near)	IA	USA	Light	approx. 1 minute	I saw a strange light in the sky that moved in a way that convential aircraft cannot move.	10/12/01
8/19/01 21:00	Bettendorf	IA	USA	Light	4 min	I am a mature 54 year old adult that has never scene or reported something of this nature. At 2100 hours I was standing outside my hou	8/20/01
8/1/01 21:30	Des Moines	IA	USA	Circle	10 minutes	white light changing directions in the sky.	8/5/01
7/26/01 00:00	Elkport (rural area)	IA	USA	Light	5-10min.	Vivid Orange Lites In the West	11/20/01
7/4/01 20:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Triangle	20-30 min	mother ship	5/24/05
6/23/01 03:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Fireball	5 - 10 seconds	slow moving green fireball	8/5/01
6/21/01 22:30	Ames	IA	USA	Triangle	6 mn	A very big triangle of 20 - 30 green spots	8/5/01
6/6/01 00:15	Lake Mills	IA	USA	Light	?	Confusing light in North Iowa	8/5/01
5/17/01 21:45	Ames	IA	USA	Triangle	3 Minutes	Credible witnesses, using binoculars, checking details of huge, nearby object.	8/5/01
5/17/01 21:45	Ames	IA	USA	Triangle	3-4 minutes	Large triangular craft travels slowly at low altitude over Ames, IA	8/5/01
5/9/01 23:53	Ames	IA	USA	Light	10 minutes	Four lights ascending, sitting stationary for awhile, then moving NE and disappearing	8/5/01
4/18/01 22:00	Grimes	IA	USA	Light	2-3 min	moving, non flashing light that disapeared	4/28/01
4/1/01 22:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Triangle	4 min or so	Hovered over tree tops next to I380 and angled toward highway before speeding off with flashing lights	3/19/02
2/22/01 19:45	Carroll	IA	USA	Light	30 seconds	unbelievable, five large orange/yellow bright spheres appearing one after another moving quickly across the sky and disappearing.	2/24/01
1/31/01 21:00	Muscatine	IA	USA			They're out there. Area couple reports UFO sighting By The Muscatine Journal MUSCATINE, Iowa - A Durrant couple spotted an unidentified	2/18/01
1/27/01 22:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Other	5secounds	Grenn trailing orb seen in Iowa woods!	2/18/01
1/27/01 21:15	Winterset	IA	USA	Fireball	2-3 seconds	look like a crashing ship	2/18/01
1/15/01 00:20	Iowa City	IA	USA	Formation	6-7 Minutes	A large flight of glowing discs sighted over Iowa City	8/5/01
1/9/01 11:00	Arnolds Park	IA	USA	Sphere	30 seconds	silver sphere, cars shut off that drove under it	2/18/01
12/31/00 23:00	Spirit Lake	IA	USA	Disk	2 minutes	Flash of light	2/18/01
12/1/00 20:23	Avoca	IA	USA	Light	1.5-2MIN	AT ABOUT 20:23 ON 1 DEC. 2000 (I BELEIVE) I was driving westbound in an 18 wheeler on I-80 at mile marker 60, near Avoca Iowa, when I	10/31/03
11/3/00 15:40	Decorah	IA	USA	Unknown	9 minutes	strange object seen over rural area twice in last month. viewed by many yet still unexplained. hoovering, darting, then vanishing.	12/2/00
11/2/00 01:00	Dayton	IA	USA	Disk	4-5hrs	bright star like lights seen through a telescope	12/2/00
10/20/00 21:00	West Branch	IA	USA	Changing	10 Minutes	Strange Shape-Changing Object over rural Iowa	8/5/01
10/8/00 02:00	Fairfield	IA	USA		few seconds	A bright red beam of light caught my eye and disappeared quickly as I turned to watch it.	11/11/03
9/26/00 22:10	Ankeny	IA	USA	Triangle	One minute	Triangular shaped craft (20-30ftlength of side) with a light at each corner, hovered motionless 40-50feet over a farmhouse.	12/2/00
9/24/00 23:25	Ames	IA	USA	Flash	5 min	Birght flashing light in sky	12/2/00
9/14/00 21:15	Des Moines	IA	USA	Light	:30 seconds	It was a round star object that went straight then zig zagged.	9/17/00
7/17/00 22:40	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Triangle	45-60 seconds	Sighting of a triangular-shaped object judging by distinct lights on three corners.	7/23/00
7/4/00 22:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Light	10 minutes	Red Light in the Southern Sky on the Fourth of July	3/16/01
7/4/00 22:00	West Des Moines	IA	USA	Circle	1 hour	Red Light Hovering over West Des Moines Iowa	7/23/00
7/4/00 21:30	Des Moines (metro area)	IA	USA	Light	45 minutes	Light in sky from which (twice) descended another smaller light. Moved AGAINST wind no matter what direction.	12/2/00
7/4/00 21:00	Urbandale	IA	USA	Light	1 hour	Red Light in Urbandale Iowa July 4th 2000	6/20/05
7/4/00 21:00	Windsor Heights	IA	USA	Light	hour	We saw a bright red light during a fireworks display in Des Moines.	12/2/00
6/18/00 10:45	West Branch	IA	USA	Oval	25 minutes	Iowa sighting. 2 discs sighted in field	7/11/00
6/10/00 02:30	Polk City	IA	USA	Circle	5 minutes	Strange circular object seen moving against the wind, making irregular movement and sudden speed bursts.	8/24/04
6/9/00 13:00	Lynnville	IA	USA	Disk	20 seconds	It was a bold color of light gray,about 3inches across in diameter, and a flat oval shaped saucer,it made a very unusual beeping sound	4/8/02
5/5/00 19:30	Onawa (Near, on I-29)	IA	USA	Changing	15 seconds	Ball of light separated into three lights and accelerated out of view.	8/5/01
5/3/00 20:00	Mt. Pleasant	IA	USA	Light	5 minutes	One craft crossed in front of an airplane that was flying at the same time. The three others were verry high up. All were visible with	5/11/00
4/28/00 23:15	Des Moines	IA	USA	Unknown	2 minutes	What I thought was just a satellite, with binoculars I see 3 traveling together at the same speed.	5/3/00
4/22/00 22:20	Victor	IA	USA	Fireball	5 seconds	I was outside, it was partially overcast. Object passed over me from west to east, first saw the object straight above me. Object sped	4/26/00
4/2/00 14:00	Fremont	IA	USA	Unknown	15 sec	I had an encounter with a creature who was doing a Reptilain Hosting or demonic possession of my exwife.	2/8/05
3/25/00 00:45	Des Moines (Southeast of)	IA	USA	Fireball	20 minutes	Red light in stop and go movement and dropping a storbbing object low in the sky then fading out.	4/1/00
3/13/00 21:40	Clarinda	IA	USA	Light	10 Minutes	It looked like a star at first...	4/1/00
3/3/00 19:55	Boone	IA	USA	Oval	1-2 min	Bright Blue/silver light,right over head,statonary,thought it was a star,The objict moved due North as it dimed to a very small light.	3/7/00
3/1/00 23:00	Oskaloosa	IA	USA	Chevron	3 minutes	A dark, vertical boomerang that moved slowly	4/8/02
2/16/00 18:35	Atlantic	IA	USA	Formation	13 min.	Bright white flashing lights in the sky. Four objects flying in the shape of a "W". Followed them approximately 13 minutes, keeping th	2/23/00
1/26/00 06:45	Ottumwa	IA	USA	Disk	10 minutes	Daylight sighting of domed disk near Ottumwa	8/5/00
11/30/99 05:40	Iowa City	IA	USA	Sphere	30 seconds	satellite dots in polar orbit but one grew very bright as it turned into line with first	11/30/99
11/16/99 18:05	Durant (rural)	IA	USA	Fireball	15 seconds	A fireball of green blue/turquoise and orange color. With long glowing tail traveling behind seem to be descending out of the sky heade	1/7/00
11/16/99 18:05	Fairfield	IA	USA	Fireball	15 seconds	Greenish apearing fireball with spark tail heading slowly eastward.	11/23/99
11/16/99 18:04	Norwalk (sml town just sw of Des Moines)	IA	USA	Fireball	6-8 seconds	this was a blue-green fireball seen by myself, my husband and our young son. it was moving from the south to the northeast. my husban	11/17/99
11/16/99 18:00	Kellogg (outside of)	IA	USA	Circle	about 30 seconds	My grandma and me were driving home from Newton and About two or three miles outside of Kellogg my grandma seen something go by us. I d	11/17/99
11/15/99 18:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Fireball	1 to 2 min	Long Green tail with a orange fireball moved across the sky from south to north in the eastern sky. Tail disapated orange fireball cont	11/17/99
11/8/99 10:00	Iowa City	IA	USA	Egg	10 minutes	A white egg shaped object appears in the sky on a clear blue morning and thens grows in size and drifts slowly north. I watch it closel	11/17/99
11/8/99 05:28	Emmetsburg	IA	USA	Unknown	8 minutes	I saw what appeared to be a star-like object towards the west. Upon observing the object for a period of time. I notice it had one blin	11/9/99
10/28/99 04:47	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Teardrop	40 sec	I was driving home after work when I was a teardrop silvery and shiny object, (and it was obvious that it was chrome colored) passed ac	11/2/99
10/24/99 06:00	Iowa City	IA	USA	Sphere	3 minutes	round white ball beyond treetops straight north moving ENE fluctuating	11/2/99
9/17/99 22:18	Council Bluffs	IA	USA	Flash	2 seconds	While driving home from school in Council Bluffs down Interstate 80 I observed a bright flash that streaked across the sky a great dist	10/2/99
9/15/99 23:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Unknown	15 minutes	Looking west, at about 20-30 degrees up from the horizon, saw strange light that appeared to be moving very slowly or hovering. Lights	10/2/99
9/4/99 22:30	Brighton (outside of)	IA	USA	Fireball	30minutes	camping, object zig-zagged, stopped off and on, went behind a large cloud bank and was so bright it lit through the cloud, weird hard t	1/11/02
8/15/99 02:30	Centerville	IA	USA	Circle	1 hour	Bright Circle of Light followed me from Oskaloosa IA to Centerville, IA.	6/20/19
8/13/99 22:15	Monticello	IA	USA	Fireball	3 seconds	Happened to catch a very bright and large green fireball streek through the sky in Iowa.	8/30/99
7/23/99 23:40	Woodbine	IA	USA	Unknown	4 minutes	two groups of lights two flashing one just on both groups mirroring the other	9/6/02
7/7/99 23:15	Des Moines	IA	USA	Light	15 seconds	What looked like a star was moving to the north for a duration of 15 seconds before being blocked out by some high clouds.	7/14/99
7/6/99 20:30	Newton	IA	USA	Sphere	less than minute	Large light in southwest sky	4/27/04
7/4/99 23:00	Humboldt	IA	USA	Light	20-30 secounds	Saw an object (about the size of star) traveling very fast high in the sky. It then shot straight up out of sight.	7/14/99
6/17/99 21:03	Council Bluffs	IA	USA	Circle	60 seconds	Looking at Venus with scope and spotted a black sphere moving through the field of view very quickly.	7/5/99
6/5/99 02:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Other	4 sec	Looked like shooting star, Except they had no tail, went from south horizion to north horizion at a very high rate of speed	6/23/99
5/19/99 01:00	Des Moines (east of, 152 mm on I-80)	IA	USA	Light	20 minutes	3 YELLOW LIGHTS SIMILAR TO STARS IN SKY, APPEARED TO BE IN A TYPE OF DOG FIGHT. THEY WOULD COME TOGETHER AND THEN FLY APPART.	11/20/02
4/16/99 23:00	Iowa City	IA	USA	Circle	3-5 Minutes ?	It was circular with three round lights on the bottom in the form of a triangle, hovering right over us before taking off into the sky	11/8/05
4/16/99 20:30	Bettendorf/Davenport	IA	USA	Other	5 Minutes	Circle with beaver-tail-like object on the side.	7/5/99
4/10/99 21:47	Pleasantville (outskirts of)	IA	USA	Light	3 min	a big, very bright light traveling close to the ground very fast, w/a spinning red & white light also, as it flew away, it looked like	4/26/99
3/17/99 04:30	Iowa City	IA	USA	Triangle	10 minutes	dark triangle moves slowly and appears to hover in night sky.	4/2/99
11/17/98 05:00	Davenport	IA	USA	Triangle	4 min	Triangular shaped noiseless craft flew over head at approx 150 feet heading south by south west from my location.	11/19/98
11/14/98 13:30	Marion	IA	USA	Cylinder	5mins	ten (10) white cylinder shaped objects flying in standard formattion, for appox. 5 minutes.	11/19/98
10/26/98	Spencer	IA	USA	Fireball	3-4 SECONDS	Traveling north on US Highway 71 at approx. 2am on the north edge of Spencer. Saw blueish green fireball traveling west to east. Had r	11/1/98
10/23/98 19:00	Humeston	IA	USA	Circle	2/hr	hovering objects sighted in iowa.	11/1/98
10/18/98 04:30	Bettendorf	IA	USA	Sphere	5-7 MIN.	SOFT BALL SIZE FLOATING BALL OF LIGHT. APPEARED TO BE UNDER SOME TYPE OF CONTROL.	11/1/98
10/2/98 19:55	Bettendorf	IA	USA	Light	1 minute	Heavy Blue Light beamed down and chased family in house, simular to 50 foot wide search light.	11/1/98
10/1/98 21:00	Clarinda	IA	USA	Triangle	60 seconds	silent and large UFO just above tree tops.	8/5/09
9/26/98 02:25	Grand Mound (2 miles west of, on Highway 30)	IA	USA	Other	3 seconds	Greenish dust at 1000 to 4000ft moving east to west at approxament speed depinding on altatude 500 to 1000mph	8/5/01
7/20/98 21:00	Clearfield	IA	USA	Sphere	10-15 sec	Disappered at a 90 degree angle	5/15/06
7/20/98 12:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Other	7 minutes	It made no sound, but you could see the rear was lit up like a jet and it was as if it was looking for something.	3/11/06
7/16/98 09:30	Muscatine	IA	USA	Oval	1 minute	Very brilliant green oval traveling silently moving north to south. Clear blue sky. Object appeared shiny and metallic with sun shini	11/21/98
7/14/98 23:00	Shanadoah	IA	USA	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
7/5/98 03:00	Panora	IA	USA	Sphere	brief	Iowa lake ufo	10/31/03
6/30/98 03:58	Bettendorf	IA	USA	Light	3-5 seconds	I saw a pair of strange lights in the early morning sky that disappeared in a strange fashion.	11/21/98
6/30/98 02:00	Indianola	IA	USA	Diamond	1-2 MINUTES	Orange-Copper Glowing Diamonds...	5/15/06
6/10/98 20:00	Mechanicsville	IA	USA	Triangle	2 minutes	V-shaped large hovering object.	5/20/16
3/30/98 23:00	Davenport (Vanderveer Park)	IA	USA	Circle	?	I didn't see it at the time, it was over 2 years later I was looking over my 3-D photos and saw a splotch. I dig enhanced it and deter	11/20/01
3/20/98 18:00	Okoboji	IA	USA	Fireball	3 minutes	A large fireball came across the sky above the lake. It was yellow then changed to green.	1/28/99
9/23/97 19:00	Denison	IA	USA	Disk	5 minutes	After seeing the SR71 Blackbird I saw a saucer shaped craft hoovering silently.	2/18/01
8/17/97 22:30	Sioux City	IA	USA	Triangle	7-10 sec	the 4 of us saw a totally black triangle shaped object with no lights or sound fly over head blackining the stars out.	6/12/02
7/15/97 17:00	Fairfield	IA	USA	Sphere	30 minutes	extremely bright reflective sphere changed into eccentric cigar chape	10/2/99
5/1/97 22:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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
11/25/96 22:15	Arnolds Park	IA	USA	Triangle	30 seconds	Triangular Shaped Object Hovering Over Frozen Lower Gar Lake No More Than 1500ft (Aprox 1/4 Mile Away) From Bridge I Was Standing On.	11/17/99
9/14/96 18:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Disk	15 minutes	my friend and i saw a blurry white shape, 'bobbing' far off in a blue sky. we got the binoculars and with those saw that it was a class	11/26/03
7/15/96 22:00	Sioux City	IA	USA	Triangle	10 seconds	Triangular shapes that only I could see.	4/22/03
4/1/96 23:00	Anamosa/Cedar Rapids (between)	IA	USA	Fireball	2-3 minutes	I was delivering a pizza to a house out of town. I was returning towards a gravel rode from a suburb. I came to the end of the drive	5/3/00
11/19/95 18:00	Trenton	IA	USA		3 min.	Young man hunting sees two peculiar bright lights hovering in sky, "like planets." Suddenly they flashed, changed color, moved.	11/2/99
10/9/95	Iowa City	IA	USA			Man repts. witnessing "flash, followed by a classic UFO, w/ a tailfin at back." Red color on top half of tailfin. Became triangular.	11/2/99
10/1/95 12:00	Iowa City	IA	USA		20 sec.	Man witnesses 2 "white" aircraft rendezvous at high altitude, fly toward bizarre obj. approaching very fast. Obj. "sparkled."	11/2/99
8/30/95 23:10	Rock Valley	IA	USA	Triangle	1 hour	I was out stargazing and a large, completely silent triangle UFO passed overhead at phenomenal speed towards the East. Two more went ov	11/1/98
7/26/95 22:30	Mason City	IA	USA			Woman repts. seeing peculiar star zigzagging across sky. Fifth sighting in a week.	11/2/99
6/19/95 22:00	Adair County	IA	USA		5 hrs.	2 young men experience multiple sightings of bizarre, bright obj., which hover, streak, & land. Very bizarre; good report.	11/2/99
2/21/95 19:00	Council Bluffs	IA	USA		15 min.	Young man sees 3 solid lights; pulls off highway. Sees gigantic, gray triangle w/ "archways." Good rept, excellent drawing.	11/2/99
12/15/94 23:30	Knoxville	IA	USA	Changing	2 hrs?	Hovering object seen high in night sky as a /\ (this should be like an arrowhead) changing or to a < or making a turn.	5/24/99
12/9/94 20:30	Lu Verne	IA	USA	Light	5 Seconds	Large orange ball of light moving slowly across sky.	4/8/02
8/15/94 23:00	Earlham	IA	USA	Rectangle	45 min.	one huge(4 storys high,150 ft. wide) craft, trailed by 2 small pods that looked about the size of a big car. The big ship made no noise	1/22/00
6/10/94 23:59	Boyden	IA	USA	Flash	1 second	A flash of bright light on a dark night.	12/9/00
4/16/94 01:30	Mason City (south of)	IA	USA	Unknown	1 min	I was going south on I35 in a Greyhound bus in northern Iowa. It was early in the am. and i was just sitting awake then suddenly, a ver	11/11/03
1/18/94 19:00	Milford	IA	USA	Flash	1 hour	The objects hover to the west changing diffrent colors and disaprearing after 8:00	1/22/04
12/19/93 18:00	Ottumwa	IA	USA	Formation	8-10 seconds	1993 Evening Ufo sighting over Ottumwa, Iowa. Singular object splits in two, lights fly across sky.	3/4/08
6/15/93 00:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Rectangle	five minutes	My diesel engine saved me?	5/15/06
5/25/92 23:00	Clarion	IA	USA	Oval	2min	Football sized craft passed over my home in 1992	7/5/05
5/9/92 22:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	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	USA	Unknown	5 Minutes	Strange Vibrations...	5/15/06
8/31/91 20:00	Council Bluffs	IA	USA	Cylinder	5 min	Daytime sighting of a black stationary tube that looked like UFO from Star Trek Movie with the whales.	12/19/03
7/18/90 22:00	Ames	IA	USA	Disk	10 minutes	At a stadium concert, I and others saw a disk silently hover directly overhead, and then accelerate away at great speed.	7/16/03
2/14/90 19:30	Davenport	IA	USA	Triangle	20-30 minutes	Three bright lights in a huge triangle shaped pattern over I-80 moving to the East from Iowa into Illinois	5/15/06
9/12/89	Waterloo	IA	USA	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
7/25/89 20:00	Waterloo	IA	USA	Sphere	seconds	Swift moving metallic orb, traveling East to West.	2/18/01
7/1/89 03:30	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Triangle	15 minutes approx.	I think my sighting as a child may have something to do with my current abilities	7/5/08
6/30/89 01:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Disk	30 min max	craft hovering over Des Moines River in Iowa	2/14/06
5/1/89 22:00	Palo	IA	USA	Light	1 minute	A bright light floated slowly ( and silently) over the barn.	2/18/01
1/15/87 01:45	Elkader	IA	USA	Other	On the ground	What I and my wife seen that night on are way home from a night out. It wasn't anything from man, and it's not new to me. It was a cume	12/2/00
10/30/86 13:30	Decatur City	IA	USA	Triangle	2 minutes	static electric shocks felt on the short hairs of my body	2/14/08
10/26/86 13:30	Decatur	IA	USA	Triangle	10 seconds	It continued on straight path about 100' in air for about 8 seconds. then went straight up for about 2 seconds and out of sight.	1/28/99
7/2/86 20:00	Fairfield	IA	USA	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
7/1/86 16:00	Glidden	IA	USA	Disk	1 minute	Silver disk motionless in the sky.	10/15/02
8/15/85 02:00	Pocahontas	IA	USA	Light	1 to 5 minutes	Very bright white light moving sideways and down in the sky.	6/22/22
9/2/84 08:20	Osage	IA	USA	Sphere	5 minutes	The ship seemed to be looking for something.	4/25/02
7/20/84 22:00	Iowa City	IA	USA	Circle	3 min	A slow moving white glowing object moved south to north across the night sky and seemed to be move almost directly overhead of us. It	4/27/04
8/15/83 21:00	Shellsburg	IA	USA	Triangle	3 hours	Black v shape no sound verry slow and low	6/14/12
6/30/83 19:00	Akron	IA	USA	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
1/20/83 18:30	Glidden	IA	USA	Light	3 minuets	Saw star like object fly stright horizontal and vertical lines with 90 degree angels at all turns.	10/15/02
9/12/82 05:30	Mason City	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Cigar	21 min	strange colered lights hovered before speeding away.	2/24/07
8/30/80 20:00	Maquoketa	IA	USA	Unknown	20 minutes	OBJECT APPEREAD WAS DIM GOT BRIGHT WENT EAST REAPPERED SAME SPOT REPEATED SAME THING	12/3/04
6/15/80 10:30	Wapello	IA	USA	Circle	10min.	Craft sucking water from pond.	4/16/05
3/20/80 00:00	Morning Sun	IA	USA	Disk	2 minutes	A 12' circular light was on the bottom of the craft. It was hovering silently over my farm pond. I was 20' from craft, the engines star	8/30/99
12/29/79 02:00	Waterloo (south of)	IA	USA		8 min.?	light moving oddly in straight line.	7/25/04
6/15/79 14:00	Dorchester	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Triangle	30 seconds	Boomerang shape many light made no sound.	2/4/13
7/15/78 12:00	Avoca	IA	USA	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	USA	Triangle	3 min	never made a sound	6/12/08
5/1/77 23:00	Mt Ary	IA	USA	Other	20 minutes	3 lights stationary high above then immediately gone.	12/22/22
8/10/76 01:00	Northwood	IA	USA	Light	15 Min	point of light ,like on a jet, divided into 2 points with large flash and disappeared over horizon in 12 seconds	9/2/05
7/17/76 21:00	Iowa City	IA	USA	Cigar	70 mins	9 stars in the summer sky,	11/21/10
7/15/76 20:00	West Liberty	IA	USA	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
10/25/75 22:25	Muscatine (area approx. 7mi south)	IA	USA	Circle	10 to 12 sec	A formation of approx. 16 round fire orange guided craft entered the western sky at "10 o'clock" attitude. As I was watching the clear	4/2/99
7/15/75 23:00	Grinnell	IA	USA	Rectangle	15-20 minutes	Interesting odor case, unique perhaps in the "glob" description emanating from UFO.	12/2/00
6/30/75 17:00	Denison	IA	USA	Unknown	2 minutes	Red Geometic "Amebia"	11/8/05
6/1/75 03:00	Iowa City	IA	USA	Disk	10 minutes	Silver disk high in blue sky over Iowa 1975	2/1/07
11/1/74 20:00	Davenport	IA	USA	Light	10 minutes	On this particular clear sky evening in rural Iowa. I was leaving our farm and goin on a date in town. I was 17 at the time and was goi	9/24/03
7/7/74 03:00	Council Bluffs	IA	USA	Disk	2:00 HRS.	We saw a red light at high altitude zig zag across sky from horizon to horizon, then again hovering slowly over Mo. river area, then cl	4/26/00
12/3/73 19:00	Avoca	IA	USA	Unknown	1 hour	Stationary bright white light that turned red and appeared to envelope the object once it started to move at a high speed.	2/18/01
9/16/73 23:30	Jefferson	IA	USA	Oval	4 hours	My friend and i saw an oval object and the next thing i knew four hours had passed.	6/23/04
6/6/73 22:00	Larchwood	IA	USA	Diamond	10 min	Diamond shaped object seen by family of 5 driving near TV transmission tower in South Dakota at Iowa Border.	8/11/04
3/16/73 22:00	Reasnor	IA	USA	Disk	1 hour	Disc seen hovering above the clouds for an hour.	1/4/19
9/1/72 10:00	Onawa	IA	USA	Disk	3 min	Saucer shaped object with square red lights moves slowly over small Iowa town.	1/10/09
9/1/71 08:00	Humboldt	IA	USA	Cigar	45 sec	Craft resembling a large blimp appears out of thin air from a cloudless sky ,descends, lands and vanishes	1/22/04
4/6/71 20:00	Osceola	IA	USA	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	USA	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	USA	Disk	5 minutes	I saw a UFO over a house, very close to roof.	5/15/13
7/10/69 21:00	Chariton	IA	USA	Circle	5 min.	It was disk shaped and brilliant white on the bottom,flew at a high rate of speed and changed direction at 90 degree turns.	2/14/06
9/15/68 22:00	Oelwein	IA	USA	Cigar	5 minutes	a cigar shaped craft with muti-colored lights around it traveling toward the southwest absolutely silently and at a rather slow speed.	3/2/04
7/20/68 01:00	Des Moines	IA	USA	Circle	10-20 mins	a strange but non frigtening evet	8/5/01
6/20/68 15:00	Fairfield	IA	USA	Other	5 minutes	Huge object 100'-150'appearing like a chrome coated deflated balloon moved slowly over Fairfield, Iowa	8/5/01
5/1/68 13:00	Redfield	IA	USA	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	USA	Circle	60 seconds	Large white light near Silver City, Iowa.	2/1/07
6/6/67 12:00	Cedar Rapids	IA	USA	Oval	2 min.	Bright-as-chrome object hovering	4/9/04
6/1/67 16:00	Red Oak	IA	USA	Light	15 - 20 seconds	Two unidentified extremely bright lights, one large - one smaller, clearly visible on a sunny clear day, moving at incredible speed..	2/18/01
12/15/66 17:30	Webster City	IA	USA	Sphere	2 minutes	Two silent and slowly moving red spheres suddenly accelerate and vanish.	12/16/05
10/1/66 22:30	Anamosa	IA	USA	Unknown	60 seconds	large quiet craft, covered with blackness, and "stars" to not be noticed, moving slowly southwest to north north east.	9/17/00
9/27/66 01:00	Red Oak	IA	USA	Oval	2-3 minutes	Beeping sounds and unidentifiable greenish, foggy light that flooded area for approx. 3 min. in the early morning hours.	2/18/01
7/15/66 22:00	Centerville	IA	USA	Light	aprox 15-30 minutes	90 degree angles uniform stair step flight pattern, very bright light, silent	4/16/05
6/15/66 21:00	Bellevue	IA	USA	Disk	summer	This is the first time I have reproted this occurrance. I was between 10-12 (have have to go back to where my bed was placed in my bedr	11/20/01
10/15/65 21:00	Tabor	IA	USA	Oval	45 min.s	Craft hovers noiselessly over witnesses in 1965, in Southwest Iowa, is photographed by 2 photographers, photos stolen later.	9/29/04
7/15/65 18:00	Hornick	IA	USA	Fireball	1/2 min.	Bright orange/red fireball crosses sky in western Iowa in summer of 1965.	4/27/04
1/1/65 20:00	St. Ansgar	IA	USA	Fireball	20 seconds	winter nite wonder	2/1/07
5/11/60 21:12	Sioux City	IA	USA		1 minute	My 2 brothers and I saw a flying saucer .	6/22/22
9/1/58 21:00	Perry	IA	USA	Triangle	15-20 seconds	Triangular formation of red objects flying soundlessly across the sky.	6/24/14
10/1/57 20:30	Martelle	IA	USA	Cigar	unk	I Fly and have been in Viet Nam and around the world and have never seen anything like it again.	8/5/01
6/30/57 13:00	Burlington	IA	USA	Circle	90 seconds	Slow travel when observed, followed by an abrupt direction change with unbelievable acceleration.	6/2/13
1/1/54 22:00	Sioux City	IA	USA	Circle	30 seconds	1954 Radar sighting, Air Force base in Iowa - 50,000 - 80,000 feet 1,200-1,800 miles per hour.	4/16/05
4/10/53 13:00	Chariton	IA	USA	Other	10 min	" Flying Wing Before It's Time "	6/4/04
7/7/39 02:00	Keokuk	IA	USA	Oval	10 minutes	Mother sees UFO above railroad tracks in 1939.	9/2/05
01:00	Postville	IA	USA	Other	20 minutes	It has been a long time ago and I've tried to get help. It was early Saturday morning. I was going to Lansing iowa, was going duck hunt	10/19/21