UFO Sightings in Iowa
1,149 UFO sightings reported in Iowa since 1939, peaking in 2012 (101 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 1,149
- Span
- 1939–2022
- Peak year
- 2012 (101 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1939–2022 · peak 2012 (101 reports)
Top cities in Iowa
Des Moines
1968–2021 · peak 2012 (11 reports)
Cedar Rapids
1967–2020 · peak 2012 (11 reports)
Council Bluffs
1974–2022 · peak 2020 (6 reports)
Sioux City
1954–2021 · peak 2004 (4 reports)
Waterloo
1989–2020 · peak 2013 (5 reports)
Iowa City
1975–2022 · peak 1999 (5 reports)
Davenport
1974–2020 · peak 2011 (3 reports)
Ames
1990–2020 · peak 2001 (4 reports)
Dubuque
2002–2020 · peak 2014 (5 reports)
Bettendorf
1998–2021 · peak 1998 (3 reports)
Cedar Falls
2004–2016 · peak 2007 (4 reports)
West Des Moines
2000–2021 · peak 2011 (3 reports)
Muscatine
1998–2019 · peak 2011 (3 reports)
Urbandale
2000–2021 · peak 2014 (3 reports)
Fairfield
1968–2020 · peak 2003 (4 reports)
Marion
1998–2021 · peak 2002 (3 reports)
Ottumwa
1993–2012 · peak 2005 (3 reports)
Ankeny
2000–2020 · peak 2014 (3 reports)
Keokuk
1939–2018 · peak 2007 (2 reports)
Mason City
1982–2014 · peak 2005 (3 reports)
Various counties · IA, USA
IOWA MUFON REPORT: Fireball/greenish light seen from various Iowa locations by many witnesses & reported to radio show.
Muscatine · IA, USA
Fire ball in the western sky from Muscatine
Fort Madison · IA, USA
Recently my friends and I were on a mission trip just outside of Fort Madison, Iowa. We had just finished doing some work on a house wh
Ottumwa · IA, USA
Star or planet - when seen in binoculars, five lights in a circle, one in the middle - flashing a rainbow of colours - moved miles East
Oskaloosa · IA, USA
While sitting in the backyard with a friend. What appeared to be a star, slowly started decending toward the Southeast horizon.It slowl
Iowa City (near · on I-380), IA, USA
Silent, slow moving black sphere flying near Iowa highway
Fort Dodge · IA, USA
Dark Triangle with 2 lights seen traveling towards thunderstorms
Sheldon · IA, USA
Triangle shaped UFO observing thunderstorms
Sheldon · IA, USA
IOWA MUFONREPORT: Director, Beverly Trout, interviewed witness by phone re a sighting witness had reported to NUFORC.
Ottumwa · IA, USA
Rectangle-shaped craft - silhouette
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
Object heading direct west moving about 3 times the speed of a plane, with one light flashing, jumping from position to position.
Council Bluffs · IA, USA
Traingle UFO sighting clear veiw three witnesses and one stubborn person who wouldn't look
De Soto · IA, USA
3 lights defining a triangle shape moving slowly in a night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible sighting of U. S. Navy NOSS satellites. PD)
Iowa (unspecified town) · IA, USA
First object observed jumped from location to location instantly. Until it disappeared. The second object was moving fast, the obje
Sioux city · IA, USA
I saw a barrel shaped object two hundred feet above morningside Lutheran church. It was n Not shiny. It resembled a 55 gallon oil drum
Holstein · IA, USA
Time manipulation after possible abduction. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Mason City · IA, USA
didnt notice untill my friend asked me if i saw what he saw the object was in the sky very far away, may have been in space but couldn
Waukee/Clive · IA, USA
Strange Light Circles Waukee/Clive Iowa
Marshalltown · IA, USA
Large round glowing object falling to the South East.
Iowa City · IA, USA
11.56 AM 4/14/05 LOCATION: SE of Iowa City - Iowa City Airport.Altitude perhaps 1000-1500 feet. Thin white object rapidly appears
Ottumwa · IA, USA
Note: I don't remember the exact time, but it was sometime between 10 PM and 12 AM I believe. I used to keep my window open before
DeWitt · IA, USA
March 1, 2005 outside of Dewitt IA on I30, there were 6 lights grouped into 2 triangular configurations near the eastern horizon
Mason City · IA, USA
SAW A CIRCLE
Des Moines · IA, USA
Two objects leading a third, or was the two objects being followed ?
Cedar Falls · IA, USA
lights cedar falls