All Reported UFO Sightings in Iowa City, Iowa

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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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Hovering Lights above I-80 in Coralville Lights hovering just north of interstate 80 and Coralridge Ave. Four or five lights then changed to three then two. Yellow and red lights, one light beam was straight down for a few seconds.

Photographed & video at a stop light from inside my car.

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I barely visible dark boomerang glided across the sky noiselessly. No lights. My sister and I went outside to have a small fire in her fire pit.

It was already very dark outside so that we needed to use flashlights to get situated. Once the fire was started I sat back in my Adirondack chair and looked at the night sky. A few stars were visible but I immediately noticed that it looked like the sky was rippling.

I looked closer and let my eyes adjust. It looked like a black boomerang was blocking the stars behind it, darker than the sky around it. As I stared I said, “What is that?” And my sister, apparently not seeing what I was seeing yet, said, “It’s an airplane.

” I said, “OK” but kept staring intently. She saw this and looked to see where I was looking. She suddenly stood up and said, “What the hell?” I stood up with her and we continued to watch the shape.

It had no lights of any kind and there was so sound coming from its direction. I don’t know quite how to describe this but it seemed to glide rather than fly. Maybe it was the speed it was moving at? I’m not sure.

From the time I spotted it to the time it disappeared from our sight was probably 30 seconds. It didn’t appear to be as high as a jet would be or as low as a small airplane. It was somewhere in between.

It was large. I would guess that it was as large as a passenger jet but, again, there was no sound. After it was gone we paid attention and we could hear jets up high and planes lower.

We can’t explain this. If there was a trail it was too dark to see it. As far as we could tell we were the only ones who even noticed its presence.

It was very stealthy. It was almost invisible but I don’t know how it would evade the radar of the nearby small airport.

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Rectangular shaped distortion in the clouds that disturbed clouds when it disappeared I was making a delivery for work shortly before 10:00 AM on Thursday, June 23rd, 2022 in Iowa City, Iowa. I was on Newton road, close to the VA Hospital as well as many other university buildings and sport complexes. I heard a helicopter flying over me and just glanced up to look.

Well to the south of the helicopter’s path and to the west/southwest of where I was, I noticed a strange disturbance in the clouds. There was a rectangular shape over a section of clouds that caught my attention. I can only describe it as what one might think a cloaking devise would look like.

Sort of a heat wave look but denser. Best comparison is the movie “Predator” when he uses his cloaking ability. It had very defined edges and was not moving or making any noise.

I observed this for about 10 seconds. As I went to retrieve my phone to take a picture, it rapidly recessed towards the middle from all sides, taking the clouds with it. Then it was just gone, but left a void in the clouds where it was and bunching the clouds it disturbed to the middle.

I did not see anything take off or fall from the area. Nor did any other portion of the clouds around it move. I did take a picture of what it did to the clouds.

By the time I retrieved my phone, the clouds had moved a bit but you can still easily see the shape that this object left. I also attached a map of the area I was at. I marked in yellow where I was.

A blue mark for where the object was. Also a red arrow for where the helicopter was and the direction it was traveling.

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Took dogs outside for usual nightly walk around my apartment building. About halfway around the building the temperature suddenly drops and it starts raining, increasing in intensity. We loop back around towards my door and my dogs stopped in their tracks and looked up.

I saw 4 white circular lights moving criss-cross in a counter-clockwise fashion slowly moving across the sky. Myself and my sister's boyfriend were outside with the dogs. We yelled for my sister to come outside and when she did we realized it was no longer raining and the lights were traveling away from us.

My sister saw the lights as they were traveling away from us.

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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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UFO fleet in straight line pattern over Iowa City 04Dec2020 Looking west towards Hyvee first ave and Muscatine and noticed 8 or 9 orbs in the sky flying in a straight line pattern at the same speed. After a few seconds they all faded one by one as they each approached a point in the sky.

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Driving east of Iowa City and looked to the sky. Above the horizon there were 2 elongated light objects that looked like white light. They were moving fast and in different directions.

One split off from the others and headed north and disappeared. The main one hung in the middle of the sky above the horizon. Then there was another white lighted object above the main light.

It too also he waded north and disappeared. As I was driving home south the main lighted object sort of just vanished. I watched it for about 15 min.

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Triangular shaped craft on Nov. 8, 2017 I had just arrived home from work with my family and I took my infant son into the driveway to look up at the stars. I saw five lights arranged into a triangular formation moving very slowly above me and my son.

There was no sound at all. It lasted only about 3-5 seconds, and then it accelerated so fast that the lights formed lines and then it all disappeared. My son was only one year old at the time, and so I can't count him a witness.

I am over 40 and this was the first time I have ever seen anything like this in my life. I will never forget it. I remember that I was not able to see stars through what appeared to be the middle of the craft, but the craft itself was invisible.

It was very dark outside, and the sky was crystal clear. After a year of reflection, I assume it was a classified govt. craft, but I'll probably never know.

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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. I saw a 2 red lights close together and a third not far behind. They were moving as a plane would move, about the same speed as a plane would move across the sky, but there were 3 together, and then another came, and another, and another.

They seemed to rise from the horizon in a diagonal line, climbing in altitude until they disappeared. And they just kept coming from the horizon. That was what was so striking and unusual about it.

There is a YouTube video from 12/25/2010 that describes EXACTLY the same event that I witnessed in 2016. There were many more red lights in the 12/25/2013 YouTube video than what I witnessed. But the event was exactly the same.

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Pulsing orange yellow light moving in a straight line. thought it must be a helicopter, but no sound. It abruptly changed directions and angled up at much greater speed and disappeared.

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Red white and blue strobing very far away. I thought I was watching an exploding star and after about an hour I went to tell my roommate and like 1 minute later while we were both watching it suddenly it moved very fast to the northwest and was mostly orangeish when it started moving and was over the horizon in seconds after being in the same spot for at least an hour. Mostly white and red with some blue.

It would pulsate and fade the white color and flash the red and blue i think. It could have been there for longer i saw it first just sittin there looking like an exploding star or somethin but taking off in a straight direction we both immediately knew that was a ufo. Also i thought i saw a black circle shoot out about 30 mins in.

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It's way up and just hanging there blue red and flashing, been in about the same place for 10 minutes. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Two UFO sightings and encounters right by my own house. I think they were interested in me. My best friend and I were just getting back to my house because it was late and my parents asked me to come home.

My friend was right in the middle of a slightly offensive joke when he stopped talking. I was about to walk past him to put in my garage code. I looked at him.

He looked like he had seen a ghost. He touched my shoulder and made me turn around. Right across the street above my neighbors house was this craft/light.

It appeared to be spinning. It was red and yellow at first and almost looked like a Venn Diagram. Meanwhile we were speechless as it appeared to be watching us.

It morphed into one singular circle and was now blue and grey and still spinning. Meanwhile dogs in the neighborhood were having an absolute fit, but we were silent and couldn't move at all. Then it took off into the sky.

basically just disappeared. It left a trail of yellow behind it. It also didn't make a sound when it took off.

That event changed my life. Ever since then I have been a believer 100%. I know there is something out there.

It may be the government. But I believe it is Alien life. Not a single person has ever believed my story and I just feel like a crazy person most of the time.

So I just don't bring it up anymore. Another even happened in June about 6 months later. I was having a fire in my backyard with some close friends and out of nowhere a craft appeared above my house and flew away.

But it had a light shining on me and I had a sun burn in the morning. My friends didn't see this object, but I DID. I would love to meet more people out there who have experienced events like this.

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Ufo spotted by IC Eastern airport. Round sphered shaped with 3 three lights view looked triangle. Slowly gliding came at car Several event occurrd tonight.

Going to car in Lakeridge. Object with white light coming closer then red and blue lights appeared. It was as of it was gliding.

Object when near round sphere shaped with three lights, red at top end and two white ones forming triangle. Then slowly moves in another moving nw with large red light and no craft seen. When got to bowling alley aircraft was going east over feeds business aircraft then switched directions moving west gliding.

Aircraft had one red, blue, and white light. I turned on street north bound nxt to ic bowling alley. Craft veered my waydirection and at this point below power lines slowly hoovering yet so smootly gliding near as well as moving closer to my car at lower latitude below tree tops.

Craft again was round sphere shaped with three lights, one red, white, and blue. Children and I wsre freaking out. Did a u turn as fast as I could and got back on 218 now towards iowa city where craft moved parallell ! and then lagged behind and crossed river and hoovered over ikwa city roughly around hills bank area igg gilbert street.

This continued after going through mcdonalxs drive through to calm kids down. ohse in Lakeridge.

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Hovering fireball north of Iowa City I was leaving the parking lot of Wal-Mart in Iowa City with my girlfriend when I noticed a strange looking bright red/orange fireball in the northern sky. As we were in close proximity to the airport I initially thought it was some sort of airplane or helicopter, however the light was very unlike any aircraft I am familiar with. I had my girlfriend pull the car over to the side of the road and we both witnessed this very strange, bright, shimmering firelight hovering in the northern sky.

After a couple of minutes she continued driving east down Highway 6 as I remained fixated on the object through her window (which places the object essentially due north of Iowa City). As we crossed over the Iowa River on Highway 6 the object suddenly faded and vanished into nothing. I have no explanation for what I have seen tonight and I am utterly dumbfounded, so much so that I felt compelled to file this report in hopes that there is some explanation.

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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 My wife and I were traveling Westbound on Interstate 80 on March 18th at approximately 9:30 pm when we saw a small distant fireball quickly cross from the southern sky to the north, very quickly. We were just a few miles from Iowa City on I80 when we both saw this at the same time. My wife was driving; I was in the passenger seat.

It was as small as a star, but more orange in color. Like as if an orange star was closer, like within the atmosphere, but it was fast, very very fast. It zipped in a almost straight line from the southern sky to the north.

The whole thing lasted only about 4 - 5 seconds. Immediately my wife and I exclaimed to one another."did you see that"? But it was gone very quickly.

It left a very strong impression on both of us. We both have seen shooting stars and meteor showers.but this was noticiable different.

Orange, small and very very fast. Once again, 4 -5 seconds across the sky from south to north.

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Triangular aircraft with white and red lights I am a full-time college student and a nanny. I was driving home from work when something caught my attention. I saw a triangular aircraft slowly flying very low to the ground and appeared to be just above the tree line.

The aircraft appeared to be dark in color and triangular shaped. The aircraft was decorated with a lot of white lights and a few red lights. I turned the corner and when I looked back I could no longer see the aircraft.

This aircraft was definitely not an airplane or helicopter. I have never seen anything like this before.

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Iowa city group of lights 2 groups of 4-5 white dots (unblinking) revolving formation, two groups - one north and one south. conjoined and disappear within 25 seconds of initial sighting.

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Bright opal colored flash in the sky oround Iowa City, Iowa on Dec. 20th 2008. My wife and I were driving from Minnesota to Georgia via Iowa and were on the interstate (forgot the road number) heading south when the sky lit up totally green for about 2 seconds.

Kinda like a lightning strike except it filled the whole sky, then it happened again about 5 seconds later. a bright opal colored flash covering the whole sky for about 1-2 seconds. We would like to know what that was and being there were many motorists on that highway at the same time, was wondering if anybody else had reported it and/or what they thought it was.

I don't have a clue and it was just weird.