All Reported UFO Sightings in Iowa

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I saw it fly over the hotel and it was huge. Very very large triangle. The main color was dark gray.

It had dark grey/black lines underneath it side to side of the craft. There were no lights on it, and it was completely noiseless. It was hovering very low to the ground.

It never made a sound.

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Ball of light changing direction like no known aircraft capability, exiting at extremely high rate of speed. I happened to be walking out of my bathroom and seen through the window a very bright light what looked to be over my neighbor's home. By the time I got to the window to try to watch it the light had dissipated.

I walked outside to investigate further, the light was navigating in very unconventional ways, changing direction on a dime, stopping or pausing and accelerating back to the initial speed it was traveling before it paused. I returned to the house to inform my family what I was witnessing, one of them returned outside with me. The light continued to swirl over the house in the distance getting brighter and dimming throughout the time we observed it.

The light eventually went straight up in the sky on the horizon, made a 90 degree turn and accelerated east at an extremely high rate of speed I have never witnessed before until we lost view behind a set of trees.

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It was a white car shaped object moving across the sky quite a ways up there between the clouds we saw the same object twice. No lights just a white object reminded me of a small car compact car.

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3 white lights suddenly dart & turn I was letting my dog out just past 4am. I was looking all around at the stars, suddenly where I had just looked seconds before in a starless patch of sky there were 3 white lights all in a row. They were the same size and brightness of other stars.

They moved with incredible speed simultaneously from the southwestern sky, veering off to the north. There was no sound as it passed overhead. The entire encounter lasted 2 seconds.

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Fixed cluster of greenish lights traveling from east to west in the northern sky. At approximately 7 p.m.

CST, I observed an oval cluster of greenish lights going from east to west across the sky north of Des Moines. I’ve seen the Space X satellites, and these weren’t traveling in a straight single file line. The illumination must have come from the sun, because they ultimately faded from view as they passed through the trees.

They looked like a large flock of birds, but they were lit up and appeared to be flying at high altitude. It’s possible that they were attached to a single aircraft, but it looked like they were flying independently.

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Saw a dark object flying northwest in night sky. I was outside and watching stars and planes. While looking at stars, I observed a gray item flying northwest.

I would guess the item was abot 3000 feet. The object was dark and hard to see in the night sky. I watched it for about 10 seconds.

The craft did not make any noise. I immediately checked flight tracker and there was not a plane nearby at that moment.

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Saw silver sphere hanging over street that stayed less than 5 seconds then flew off Driving back home up Traer street toward the Lutheran church from downtown when saw a silver sphere hanging over the street. It stayed still and hung about 5 seconds then flew off to the east quickly. Another person walking also saw it.

It was silver with the sun shining off of it. It was hard to tell size and distance. When it moved it was fast.

As it went east it got smaller in the distance. It was sitting still and when I noticed it, it took of quickly to the East.

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Partial V shape Looked up and seen a partial V type object moving South west to North east around 9:25pm. Moving very fast and lasted less than 6 seconds before out of sight.

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Saw multicolor flashing object staying in place I went to let my dog out. As I was waiting for her i decided to look at the stars as I typically do when I let her out at night. As I was looking up I noticed flashing lights.

I looked at them and noticed it wasn't the colors you'd see from a plane and it wasn't moving. I brought my dog back inside and grabbed my camera to try to take a picture of it. I walked down to the corner of my block to try to get an unobscured picture.

The camera wouldn't focus and even when manually focused unfocused when I tried to take a picture. Someone walking past stopped and asked what I was taking a picture of. I pointed up to the multicolored lights and after seeing them he left.

I went back inside to put away my camera since I couldn't get any photos. I told my grandma and she came out and looked at them as well. She went back inside while I stayed outside watching it.

Every few minutes I would step inside for a minute to warm up before stepping back outside again to watch. After watching it for around an hour I went back inside as it was too cold out for me to stay outdoors.

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Changing Lights, odd directional changes The object flying headed from West to East at a fairly slow pace, there were two white/yellow blinking lights close together flashing at the same time. The object suddenly shifted very slowly to the South and went a little further before one light went out, the other dimmed and the object stopped. It then sat for about one minute before it slowly turned back to the West and that light dimmed even further.

I looked down to send a message to a friend about it and then when I looked back up no lights were further visible and it was nowhere in sight. It was too windy and early in the morning for me to think it was a drone, but seemed smaller than a regular air craft. It didn’t look to be that far away but it was dark and difficult to get a shape on it.

It flew flat, not ascending or descending. My son watched it fly with me but we couldn’t figure out what it was.

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4 to 5 lights in the sky to the east of New Hampton IA aprox 10 miles roughly above Lawler IA I stepped outside with a colleague to have a cigarette and noticed a couple of lights off to the distance that seemed out of place. I watched them fade in and out and move up and down at a high rate of speed. After seeing this I cut my co worker off mid conversation and asked if he was seeing what I was seeing.

He looked and saw the same thing. A moment later the two lights turned into four and seemed to be flying in some sort of formation but were fading in and out then got really bright before fading out once again. This went on for roughly 45 minutes.

There were eight people who witnessed this event. Was really fascinating. The lights seemed to pulse then slowly fade out of existence.

They would loop around one another and then seemed to be stationary before fading out of sight. Then moments later be miles away and do the same pattern again.

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It looked like it could be a white hot air balloon, but very high- like a jet plane. I was taking a walk, and noticed the white object. 2 others walking with me also saw it and speculated that it might be a spy balloon.

It didn't move much over the course of our hour-long walk, sometimes disappearing behind clouds, but was still there when I went in at 1 p.m.

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Fast moving bright light overhead. Not a normal aircraft! Then disappeared. Clear night.

Bright light overhead, clear night. Fast moving, disappeared quickly while still well above horizon. I don't think it was a meteor or aircraft even though this is the flight path for our municipal airport.

Had headphones on couldn't hear if it made sound.

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There was 1 light then it separated into 4 lights, then it went back together. Driving home and saw what appeared to be a light in the sky. The light separated into 4 smaller light that made a square, then they went back to one.

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The often told story years ago was of the ufo seen over the creek near downtown, apparently several witnesses, One night I returned home to watch the evening news and they were announcing a ufo had been seen traveling over the town from south to north and going down in a quarry. Around the same time-and I have the news clipping, a slow moving light was being watched as it receded over the airport by several witnesses when they got of their cars to look. I have the news clipping.

One was a cop, another was a friend of mine. More recently I decided to get out my telescope-not a cheap one. I pointed it straight up and there were 6 or so large orbs moving south to north single file.

I must say at satellite speed. This was before Starlink. Just looked very odd to me.

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About 10 objects moved from one end of the sky to the other in less than a minute About 10 crafts passed from the west side of the sky moving very fast to the east side of the sky. They reached a certain point in the east, and at that point each one would turn blue for a second, then tremble, and disappear. All of the crafts appeared to be flying in a very straight line spaced out about evenly.

They were all far from each other but were coming from and going to the same place.

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Triangular craft with 7 lights under it mimicking an air plane There was a triangular craft flying a few thousand feet above the ground. There were 7 total lights under the craft. There were 2 flashing lights in the middle of the craft.

It was flying at a very low speed that caused me to believe it was mimicking a plane. It appeared the size of a 777. There was no jet sound behind it.

For the 3 minutes I saw it the world seemed to stand still. During this time as I was driving it felt like I was crawling instead of driving. But only while I was watching it.

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Seen a jet go straight up until it reached a certain altitude then headed west and went over us then a sphere shaped aircraft appeared After watching a jet go straight up in the air then and west going straight above us a sphere shaped craft appeared at the halfway mark of the trail left by the jet while it went straight. As we were looking at it and wondering where it came from a bright light appeared in the sky north of it and then it dimmed with a flicker . Then the sphere like craft headed west until we couldn't see it anymore.

I believe he light.was from a metallic craft reflecting the sun.

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Went outside on break. Went outside on my work break. Went to take a picture of the lights of the city and saw this thing on the upper left.

It was gone after I took the picture.

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Bright light. Not an airplane. No sound Observed a bright light to the south/ southeast of my location, traveling towards the north.

Object appeared to then turn directly east. Captured video. I first assumed it was a satellite until it turned and was quickly at a great distance from my location.