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)
Red Oak · IA, USA
a teardrop
New Hampton · IA, USA
2 HUGE BRIGHT STATIONARY LIGHTS IN THE SKY. ((NUFORC Note: Venus and Jupiter currently are prominent in the sw sky. PD))
Sioux City · IA, USA
Rounded UFO Near Grandview Park in Sioux City
Marshalltown · IA, USA
October 2, 2008 just after 8 p.m. Marshalltown, Iowa, saw a black triangular shaped object, with round green lights in V pattern
Des Moines · IA, USA
WHILE I WAS DRIVING ON THE INTERSTATE I SAW 3 TRIANGLER UFOS OVER MY CAR.
Hancock County · IA, USA
About 7 lights in a V pattern moving across sky heading north, no sound, lots of other aircraft in the area after the lights left
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
Red light dimming in and out across the clear night sky.
Iowa City · IA, USA
Late-Afternoon Object Not Depositing a Vapor Trail Unlike Several In-Vicinity Airliner Jets
Council Bluffs · IA, USA
Sighted black triangle with three white lights and one red. Hovers, moves slowly, turns. Little sound.
Des Moines · IA, USA
My brother and my mom were with me as we saw a ball of light moving Northwest through the sky. It only lasted about 40 seconds.
Sioux City · IA, USA
Object seen within 1 Mile East of Grandview park in Sioux City(NorthSide). It travelled at about 400 ft in elevation in a N.E. directio
Des Moines · IA, USA
Red light over Des Moines, Iowa vewed from Mitchellville, Iowa.
Urbandale · IA, USA
Changing colors of lights above city.
Fort Dodge · IA, USA
Strange pulsing fireball low on the horizon.
Waterloo · IA, USA
Over Waterloo viewed from Dewar and Oelwein
Atlantic · IA, USA
07-03-2008 on a cloudless nite a star in sky above iowa moving in different patterns for 10 min
Eldora · IA, USA
Very large disk shaped ufo stopped in mid air a number of times.
Eldridge · IA, USA
Small triangle shaped lights moving through sky.
Urbandale · IA, USA
Five Intense Beams of Light
Waterloo · IA, USA
Flamelike UFO seen in Waterloo, IA
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
Country Side · IA, USA
Two Brothers See Red Orbs Flying in Sky at Back Road CampSite.
Tama · IA, USA
BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT MOVING ACROSS SKY SEEN ON THREE OCASSIONS
Solon · IA, USA
object hovering with two bright lights that made no noise and disappeared into a while puffy cloud type formation and glowed.
Mediapolis · IA, USA
An object flying from the south slowed down near our house and then quickly flew toward the NW