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Iowa City · IA, USA
Late-Afternoon Object Not Depositing a Vapor Trail Unlike Several In-Vicinity Airliner Jets
Urbandale · IA, USA
Five Intense Beams of Light
Solon · IA, USA
These lights were visible in the early night time sky and witnessed by several observers prior to an advancing storm on 07/20/08 near S
Solon · IA, USA
object hovering with two bright lights that made no noise and disappeared into a while puffy cloud type formation and glowed.
Des Moines · IA, USA
A light came in my window and wake me up and after 3 min it went straight up and out of sight.
Des Moines · IA, USA
4 Fighter Jets continuous pattern. 2 F16's elongated N-S oval grid and 2 F16's elongated E-W oval grid. 2 craft leave fast after 3 hrs
Altoona · IA, USA
strange pulsing light over Altoona Iowa
Lamoni · IA, USA
I captured a dark object moving quickly across the sky (to fast for a bird)!!
Keokuk · IA, USA
A large red circle shaped object appeared out of no where and disappeared as quickly.
Des Moines · IA, USA
Green lit-up horizon with saucer like flying object.
Webb · IA, USA
five orange blinking lights
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
Sun shining off of geometric shape, hovering still, over Cedar River in C.R.
Bettendorf · IA, USA
Fats moving, pulsating lights
Marion · IA, USA
A strange short sirun noise with two massive jet streams of smoke in the sky in rainbow formation.
Bettendorf · IA, USA
Fireball, illuminating as dropping to ground 30 degrees inclination from horizontal
Atlantic and Audubon · IA, USA
A streaking light falling to the ground seen from east bound I-80 mile marker 69.
Stratford · IA, USA
Huge spinning yellow orange lights in the Central Iowa sky.
Hartley · IA, USA
5 liights in southern sky
Algona · IA, USA
6 people saw 2 objects in the sky that had lights and were flying in zig-zag patterns in the sky while staying in the same area.
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
Davenport · IA, USA
Flashing sequences of lights ((NUFORC Note: Probably the star, "Sirius," in the NE sky, at present. PD))
Reinbeck · IA, USA
Erratic direction, light(s) faded and reappeared in Iowa. ((Jupiter??))
Manilla · IA, USA
I saw 6 bright gold lights and then a flash of white light.