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Bondurant · IA, USA
Southeast sky of Altoona Iowa. Was a bright large light..disappeared in a quick instance
Lewis · IA, USA
White orb hovering before shooting off into the sky
West Liberty · IA, USA
Whitish/yellow bright light with twinkling blue lights around it, sphere shaped, moving slowly at first and quickly accelerating
Sioux City · IA, USA
Flashing multi-color sphere over Sioux City, IA. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a "twinkling" star? PD))
Harlan ((assumed from ZIP code)) · IA, USA
Odd moving falling star. ((anonymous report))
Des Moines · IA, USA
From where I seen this it's exactly 8.25 miles from the Iowa Air National Guard 132nd Wing.
Nashua · IA, USA
((HOAX CONFIRMED)) North of Nashua approx. one mile, 2 glowing balls. Motionless when first observed - perhaps at an alt. of 2000'.
Hawarden · IA, USA
Glowing reddish orange orb seen.
Lake View · IA, USA
Orange sphere in the sky, changing speed and direction.
Jewell · IA, USA
We saw a glowing sphere with no blinking lights or sound. It was moving from E to W. And it stopped at one point.
Creston · IA, USA
Orange, fast moving, no sounds, no other colors except solid orange and a reddish glow, slight haze.
Burlington · IA, USA
Chrome sphere near ammunition plant.
Muscatine · IA, USA
5 spheres moving in formation.
Council Bluffs · IA, USA
Slow-moving to the north, with red flashing lights.
Council Bluffs · IA, USA
Bright white orb seen from Madison Ave..
Waterloo · IA, USA
Looked like 15-16 spheres which had translucent colors. Rotated around each each other slowly then disappeared; reappeared.
Brayton · IA, USA
A foggy sphere in the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Probably an out-gassing event from a spent rocket. PD))
Sioux City · IA, USA
Ball of light, strange maneuvering, disappeared.
Fredericksburg · IA, USA
For over a year myself and other employees have watched 3 same lights over part of our town from 20:00-0700..
Dubuque · IA, USA
Green orb came into sight, stopped in the sky, and started blinking; then took off.
Urbandale · IA, USA
3 glowing orange orbs floated above the interstate at a low level. Moving very slowly. Sky was clear and they were very distinct.
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
Muscatine · IA, USA
Here is our descriptions: red-orange looking big sphere with smaller.
Decorah · IA, USA
Two amber colored orbs moving together.