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Bondurant · IA, USA
Circle of lights flashing different colors and yellow larger lights
Stanhope · IA, USA
Seen while driving home to the west. Looked like an orange light that got close really fast then disapered in a blink.
Council Bluffs · IA, USA
Standing alone object in night sky changes color after I shine flashlight on it.
Graettinger · IA, USA
Son driving home- in the country. He saw a circular shape rotating with 3 bright lights. The lights were also circulating. The object w
Moravia · IA, USA
It went straight. Did a circle and left the direction it came. Very very fast. Then it disappeared.
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
5 family members happened to look up and see three circular objects flying. ((NUFORC Note: Space Link satellites. PD))((anonymous))
Davenport · IA, USA
4 bright white lights moving above Davenport and changing direction in unison
Osceola · IA, USA
5 blue/grey circles in triangle shape. ((anonymous report))
Bettendorf · IA, USA
2 greenish yellow circles.
Altoona · IA, USA
Star like object solid light travelling NW 2137-2139. It flew over a normal plane travelling at regular altitude speed that was heading
Pella · IA, USA
Was a bright ball of light that just hoovering for a good few hours and as the it got darker it changed from bright to an Orange reddis
Williamsburg · IA, USA
Driving west on highway 80, my husband and I witnessed this same exact object in the sky off to the north side of the highway. A ball o
Moorland · IA, USA
Wavering slow moving single white circular light that I watched fly over for a minute, then it flew straight and was gone in seconds.
Manilla · IA, USA
2 Red lights seen over small Iowa town, then disappeared!
Clinton · IA, USA
Star gazing and saw what appeared to be a very large, bright star, that appeared out of nowhere in the eastern sky. The star like light
Des Moines · IA, USA
Orange/amber fuzzy sphere moving across sky in Central Iowa, S.E. to N.W..
Des Moines · IA, USA
Bright red object spotted above north side of Des Moines
Marion · IA, USA
I think I witnessed a meteorite or meteor streaking through the sky to the north .the bright light went from looking like a bright star
Batavia · IA, USA
White lights brighter than stars. thrugh binoculars you could see round craft detail of many lights outlined.
Ossian · IA, USA
Very large, bright green object with tail streaking across night sky in southern Winneshiek County, Iowa. ((anonymous))
West Point · IA, USA
Round/circular orange object, north to south.
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
Bright orange lights moving from NW to SE very slowly
Little Rock · IA, USA
A low-flying UFO spotted 1 mile north of Little Rock and heading SE towards Sibley. Circular in shape with many flashing white lights.
Ames · IA, USA
Saw a silver circle go back and forth in the distance. That it was a plane but there was no jetstream. Would go across left and disappe