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)
Westfield · IA, USA
A witness in Westfield, Iowa, reported a disk-shaped object hovering very close to a house's roof in June 1970, for about five minutes.
Chariton · IA, USA
It was disk shaped and brilliant white on the bottom,flew at a high rate of speed and changed direction at 90 degree turns.
Oelwein · IA, USA
a cigar shaped craft with muti-colored lights around it traveling toward the southwest absolutely silently and at a rather slow speed.
Des Moines · IA, USA
a strange but non frigtening evet
Fairfield · IA, USA
A witness in Fairfield, Iowa reported a huge object, 100 to 150 feet across and resembling a chrome-colored deflated balloon, moving slowly overhead in June 1968 for about five minutes.
Redfield · IA, USA
A witness in Redfield, Iowa reported a cone-shaped object hovering directly above a railroad track on a clear day in May 1968, watching the object for about thirty seconds.
Silver City (near) · IA, USA
Witnesses near Silver City, Iowa, reported a large white circular light in the sky during a 60-second sighting in April 1968.
Red Oak · IA, USA
Two unidentified extremely bright lights, one large - one smaller, clearly visible on a sunny clear day, moving at incredible speed..
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
Bright-as-chrome object hovering
Webster City · IA, USA
Witnesses near Webster City, Iowa, reported two silent, slow-moving red spherical objects that suddenly accelerated and vanished from sight during a two-minute sighting in December 1966.
Anamosa · IA, USA
Witnesses near Anamosa, Iowa, reported a large, quiet dark object with star-like lights that moved slowly from southwest to north-northeast during a one-minute sighting in October 1966.
Red Oak · IA, USA
Beeping sounds and unidentifiable greenish, foggy light that flooded area for approx. 3 min. in the early morning hours.
Centerville · IA, USA
Near Centerville, Iowa in July 1966, a witness reported a very bright, silent light moving in a uniform stair-step pattern with sharp 90-degree angles, over 15 to 30 minutes.
Bellevue · IA, USA
This is the first time I have reproted this occurrance. I was between 10-12 (have have to go back to where my bed was placed in my bedr
Tabor · IA, USA
Craft hovers noiselessly over witnesses in 1965, in Southwest Iowa, is photographed by 2 photographers, photos stolen later.
Hornick · IA, USA
A bright orange-red fireball was reported crossing the sky over Hornick, in western Iowa, during the summer of 1965, visible for about half a minute.
St. Ansgar · IA, USA
winter nite wonder
Perry · IA, USA
In 1958, a witness in Perry, Iowa, reported a triangular formation of red objects flying silently across the sky, visible for about fifteen to twenty seconds.
Martelle · IA, USA
I Fly and have been in Viet Nam and around the world and have never seen anything like it again.
Burlington · IA, USA
A witness in Burlington, Iowa reported a circular object moving slowly before abruptly changing direction and accelerating rapidly, over about 90 seconds in June 1957.
Sioux City · IA, USA
An Air Force radar station near Sioux City, Iowa reportedly tracked an object at 50,000 to 80,000 feet, moving 1,200 to 1,800 mph, for about 30 seconds in January 1954.
Chariton · IA, USA
" Flying Wing Before It's Time "
Keokuk · IA, USA
A mother in Keokuk, Iowa reported an oval-shaped object above railroad tracks, observed for about 10 minutes in July 1939.
Postville · IA, USA
It has been a long time ago and I've tried to get help. It was early Saturday morning. I was going to Lansing iowa, was going duck hunt