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Iowa UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 26 UFO sighting reports in Iowa from 2021 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "other" (5 reports, 19.23% of total).
- January is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 15.38% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 26.92% of total).
- 09/20/21 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 3.85% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (7 reports, 26.92% of total).
Iowa UFO Sighting Reports in 2021
This is a sampling of 20 Iowa UFO reports from 2021, presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary.
You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Four red lights, not flashing, traveling in a line north to south I witnessed four non flashing red lights, traveling in a line formation from north to south, not obscured by any clouds. The lights traveled at a constant rate of speed and as they approached my location suddenly disappeared. I took pictures, and the pictures reveal more lights than I visualized.
One picture I took was a live capture, revealing erratic movement in multiple planes. There was no noise. I originally thought they were drones until they disappeared.
The lights disappeared one by one as they reached the same location overhead. The final light was larger than the previous three lights. I am a physical therapist I was taking my dad home from Christmas Eve dinner.
I am a non-drinker.
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Small dot that turned into squiggly circles 11:30 pm Dec 16 2021. Ventura iowa. I thought I saw a bright star bt then it began moving into these tight circles and then began zigzagging and looked very wiggly.
Shot allover my screen in ways I can't explain. I took several short 30 second videos and tried to capture the church in the background and the moon as referce points to where it was.
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Line of lights, 50+ crafts, moving west to east. Seen directly south when we came outside, then as it was to our southeast, the line started to disappear from the front most craft to the rear. Can't upload photo from my phone to the drop box below, but I do have 2 photos.
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Driving at night and saw a large rectangular "float"" in the sky moving slowly noiseless. Bright lights clearly defined the ufo. 3min Driving with my brother at 10 pm at night and saw a "large , huge rectangular ark shape object" like object floating slowly low in the sky.
At first appeared to be a big UPS jet which is common in this area. However it began to hover and then turn methodically and made two wide circles in the sky. Also it had red, white lights that clearly defined the rectangular shape.
Also it appeared the traffic lights were flashing or fire trucks/ police cars flashing lights ahead of us as we drove. Then at the exact the same time the lihgts stopped flashing exactly when the object disapperaed or landed close by. We just dont know.
Brother noticed light haze. At first looking ahead of the road with all the flashing lights that a building was on fire. W saw objct circle twice in the sky and vanish or land.
3 miuntes was all it took to do all this. Clear night not a cloud in the sky. Like a big noahs ark in the sky.
Slow moving hovering was huge object. Thats it.
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Satellite-type speeding light in sky stopped near star, went 90 degrees in different direction. I took my dog out to use the bathroom and glanced up at the constellation Orion. I saw a blinking red light and immediately thought it was a satellite.
It was moving pretty fast which I thought was odd so I watched it speed across the sky. Then it completely stopped near a star for a second or two before going at a 90-ish degree angle in a different direction. I realized it was not a satellite or any sort of aircraft and birds do not blink red lights.
It then circled and went off in a new direction.
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Without realizing it I had captured a picture of a ufo while out smoking with a friend I was walking near the local mall with my friend and we were going to our favorite smoke spot when I looked in the sky and thought the sky was pretty so I took a picture so I could draw it later which isn’t uncommon since I’m an artist. Later that night after I was sober I noticed a white glowing saucer shaped object in the sky in that picture. It wasn’t a lense flare, drone, plane, bird, or helicopter and when zoomed in it looked suspiciously like one of the hundreds of other ufo pictures.
I’m curious as to what this thing I accidentally caught while walking to go and smoke was.
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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 got brighter for a second, and then faded out completely.
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Approximately 20:49 a bright green square with rounded corners and 2 white lights in center object flew in a 45° angle downward from sky.
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Mirror like objects shape shifting in sky. I was with a friend observing the landscape at Stoney Point Lookout in the Galena Territory, my friend pointed into the sky and said “Can you see that, what is that?” I looked at where he was pointing and was confused. At first we thought maybe it was a flock of birds in the distance reflecting light, but it was too geometrical and machine like to be birds.
It looked like mirror like geometrical shapes moving together in a synchronized manner weaving in and out of the clouds. Kind of like how you would see a school of fish or flock of birds move together. It was too far away to get a picture.
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Single white unidentified object detected in residential area. It looked like a star but moved at an alarming rate vertically above us in our view in a zig zag pattern. When it reached over our heads, it disappeared into the sky as though it shot straight up.
It was too high to be a helicopter or drone. Too fast to be a plane. There were no blinking lights or any sound that we could detect.
After it disappeared, a plane came by a little lower than where we percieved the object going horizontally right to left through our view, then we noticed what we believe to be a helicopter on the far left. As for us observers, we are not ufo hunters. We are passive enthusiasts.
This was my first ufo sighting (ufo as in we could not attribute it to a known aircraft).
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A bright flash darted into view, triangulating in decreasing sized triangles until it stabilized over a dim lit star. After the streak of light darted into view and began the triangulation process it took some time before the object stabilized. It had a bright, blue flash and then seemed to disappear after a minute and a half or so.
The dim lit star it triangulated to stayed in the same spot the rest of the night. Seemingly, the UFO used the star as camouflage to hide its visible fuel exhaust source. I have pictures of the object.
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My report is that I sited a UFO and they may be morphed into human body's thank you.
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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 picture it and get video cause always better. This thing was literally the only thing showing up in both photo or video and after zooming in the object appears to be almost bouncing around in my camera view and is changing shapes although from the naked eye it appears stationary and same shape.
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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 of nowhere took off straight higher and following it were about 8 of them with an aura around it in the middle below it looked green circle and to the right was a cylinder looking craft and moving at the same rotation from right to left moving at same time one with the green looking light or pad looked like a 3 toed brown leg like an elephant but more dinosaur look to it and emitted objects in and out you will have to forward and rewind and zoom in to see it on the video I will show you also by the river below them shined my flash light down there and seen a set of yellow eyes and disappeared when light was about to flash it only saw yellow eyes maybe reflection of flash light or yellow light but it was eyes it the object changes almost looked like a body figure with an aura with stars and wings by the way I seen zoomi! ng in and forwarding and rewinding slow. Better equipment I’m sure you can get way better n clear view of what was in that sky everything was quiet.
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it was northeast direction saw a bright circle shape move slow then disappear very quickly.
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MADAR Node 133.
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I was in my front yard looking at the Super Pink Moon with my neighbor in the evening on the evening of April 26th, 2021. We were both using binoculars to look at the Tycho cratering on the moon that night. I heard him say "do you see that" just as a very large craft moved from right to left below the moon at a very great distance.
What struck me was the sheer size of this craft. This is going to sound a bit silly perhaps but I can only describe it as being similar in shape and size as the star destroyer in the movie Star Wars. The ship moved into what appeared to be a clear night sky however as it passed the light of the moon it seemed to dissolve into nothing as if it was slowly melting into the night sky again.
This process took only a minute or so before the entire craft was no longer visible. I couldn't beleive how much texture was visible at that distance giving me the impression it was massive. It was dark gray and black in color that had no ! visible lights or light source of it's own.
I was filled with an irrational sense to run in a fight or flight impulse. We continued to watch the surrounding sky for another 30-45 minutes before calliing it a night and returning indoors.
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Silver metalic cylinder, vertical and stationary Driving east between Mason City and Clear Lake. An unusual reflection flashed through the car - stopped and saw sun reflecting off a metalic oblong shaped cylinder that was verticle in the sky. It appeared stationary - not like any type of aircraft or air balloon.
Watched for 10-15 minutes and took some photos. Reported to police station but nobody really seem to know what it was. That was actually about two years ago and hadn't thought much more about it until recent news showed the metalic balloons entering US air space.
This object looked very similar to those news photos - not really sure what to do so called our state office and they told me to report here. I have uploaded photos.
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MADAR Node 133.
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Different types, shapes, formations outside & inside of home Will be sending more information. Started happening about a year ago or so. Never used to believe in this sort of thing, so am completely ignorant to this situation.
I believe myself to be a good person and humanitarian, and known to be immaculately clean, intelligent, perceptive, and know the law well. I am frightened because I feel the phenomenon has to relate with the Diabolical. Photos come up missing, everything I have come up missing, and only some things come back (ie.
my phone, pictures of my family or , and anything else - not the diabolical playing tricks on me) so I hold the objects on my person because I don't want the UAPs to get hurt and I don't know what to do. I am frantic. I need an expert on these things, which is why I need somebody to talk to.
My computer and phone have been hacked into, I've seen car from Washington and New York outside my home when I try any form of research on the situation. My son says that they are trying to make contact, almost like it's desperate, but a lot of information has been erased unwillingly from my phone. Stray cats in the area have been affected terribly, eyes glowing and some of them dead or still living.
Had a dog in the home, wasn't affected, but could detect areas of the home and began acting strangely. There are more than I could imagine, demons/evil spirits and UAPs. When I was asked by you if I was being watched, I told you that I did.
I thought that this was some kind of whacky thing, because most people who feel this are, but those who say they do should be heard. Because they aren't being heard they feel like they can't say anything. I am a good listener, ye or no questions and like to be asked (and vise versa) to be able to get to the bottom of things.
Only recently, both good and bad, have I felt like I'm being followed. I don't want to look any further into this, I just want to pass the message. I'd rather die than let anyone get a hold of this information that aren't good people.
We waited too long, and we're scared, frightened, any other form to describe this fear. I have only a couple of priests to back me up, an engineer, etc.
Iowa UFO Sightings From 2021 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Other | 5 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Light | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Changing | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Iowa UFO Sightings From 2021 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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January | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
April | 3 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
December | 3 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
August | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
June | 2 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
May | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
October | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Iowa UFO Sightings From 2021 By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Monday | 7 reported sightings | 26.92% of all reports |
Friday | 7 reported sightings | 26.92% of all reports |
Sunday | 5 reported sightings | 19.23% of all reports |
Saturday | 3 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Iowa UFO Sightings From 2021 By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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09/20/21 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
01/18/21 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
10/31/21 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
12/24/21 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
01/22/21 | 1 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Iowa UFO Sightings From 2021 By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 7 reported sightings | 26.92% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 6 reported sightings | 23.08% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 3 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
All Iowa Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2021
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Iowa, in 2021
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Iowa
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Iowa.