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Bettendorf · IA, USA
Large round red-orange glowing or burning object, shooting very fast through the sky going north, bigger than a plane & faster.
Sabula · IA, USA
Sabula, Iowa, chevron shaped craft.
Waterloo · IA, USA
Orange circles that appeared within, I think, the other.
Des Moines · IA, USA
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
West Branch · IA, USA
3 red lights 1 bright white one and 1 dim white one.
Dubuque · IA, USA
Fireball shot across the sky with a Northern trajectory.
West Des Moines · IA, USA
Orange burning ball traveling north. At one time the ball shot eastbound then continued northbound.
Sumner · IA, USA
Fireball changing speed and direction witnessed by two near Sumner, IA. Second sighting at this location.
North Liberty · IA, USA
Red/Orange fireball craft over North Liberty, IA.
Waterloo · IA, USA
One small, white ball of light. No noise. Moved slowly across the sky, roughly 75-100 yards above a 3rd floor apartment balcony. Moved
Ankeny · IA, USA
A single, bright orange light moving from west to east changing speed, then turning north and vanishing.
Des Moines · IA, USA
Large silent dark object in sky producing strange cloud behaviour.
West Branch · IA, USA
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
Lenox · IA, USA
Disappmall orange ball of light flying from West 2 south east.very slow movingthen simply disappearing
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
Chevron shape with red and green lights flying in odd patterns.
Muscatine · IA, USA
Here is our descriptions: red-orange looking big sphere with smaller.
Altoona · IA, USA
Orange-red fireball streaking across the night sky faster than an airplane.
Dubuque · IA, USA
To quiet to be any kind of airplane, or helicopter, for being so close to us.
Mason City · IA, USA
Hovered from east stopped went north 1..then 3 minute 2. and 3rd one 3 minutes saw me..oval fire color.
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
Red-orange light over Cedar Rapids, Iowa, under partly cloudy sky, moving from west to north.
Polk City · IA, USA
Fireball UFO seen over Big Creek in Polk City, Iowa.
Dubuque · IA, USA
Round object moving slowly across sky and goes opposite direction in a second. ((NUFORC Note: Model airplane?? PD))
Iowa City Hwy 218 north · I-380 north, Cedar Rapids), IA, USA
Three objects seen initially, two observed while travelling north, and one low and hovering craft was observed east of my apt. bldg.
Burlington · IA, USA
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.