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Ottumwa · IA, USA
round reflective object
Sioux City · IA, USA
Lights in the sky south of downtown sioux city
Shenandoah · IA, USA
Two lights separated quite a distance apart, traveling in unison in a straight line from N.W. to S.E.
Eldridge · IA, USA
Bright orange object seen flying E/SE out of atmosphere.
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
Fireball or (meteor?) Might be something stranger. ((anonymous report))
Ottumwa · IA, USA
flashing light
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
flashing blue and red lights, didnt move for an hour then vanishd
Keokuk · IA, USA
A extremly bright ball of light shot across the night sky a couple of thousand feet in the air then diappeared.
Riverside · IA, USA
Two Slow Flying Fireballs Within Seven Minutes
Newton · IA, USA
3 bright orange oval shaped craft moving slowley over interstate 80 in Newton, Iowa
Muscatine · IA, USA
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
Ames · IA, USA
Lights moving at same speed as aircraft, but no running lights. ((NUFORC Note: ISS and Space Shuttle in formation? PD))
Osceola to Kansas City · IA, USA
Bright fflashing ufo.
Spencer · IA, USA
Unexplained pattern of mult-colored lights that moved, diappeared, reappeared and has 7 Iowans believing that there are definately UFOs
Des Moines · IA, USA
Flashing and strobing object, flashing and strobing military jets, and two white lights moving above the Des Moines Iowa area.
Eldora · IA, USA
Large, horizontal, whitish rectangle seen during the day.
Fairfield · IA, USA
5 lights in shape of oval traveled from southwest to northeast sky which looked to outline one object at 3:16 AM.
Ventura · IA, USA
Craft with flashing white, red and blue lights hovering low over town making no noise.
Spencer · IA, USA
white large trianglar shape. Able to move fast to keep up with the car.
Clinton · IA, USA
clinton, iowa ufo sigthing
Dow City · IA, USA
green shooting star that led me to discover a light with blue and red strobes on it!
Waterloo · IA, USA
4 Fireball-like UFO Seen in Waterloo Iowa, July 2009
Clive · IA, USA
Bright white light in the sky that got brighter, turned red and was gone.
Algona · IA, USA
bright white light traveling north west to south east. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly the ISS, but it was visible only at 21:30 hrs. PD))