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.
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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 | |