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)
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
Dark triangular object with light on "nose" and 3 underneath at the points.
Clarion · IA, USA
Football sized craft passed over my home in 1992
Indianola · IA, USA
Strange Vibrations...
Council Bluffs · IA, USA
Daytime sighting of a black stationary tube that looked like UFO from Star Trek Movie with the whales.
Ames · IA, USA
At a stadium concert, I and others saw a disk silently hover directly overhead, and then accelerate away at great speed.
Davenport · IA, USA
Three bright lights in a huge triangle shaped pattern over I-80 moving to the East from Iowa into Illinois
Waterloo · IA, USA
Bright light over my naborhood that made no noise at all but wasnt from here,woke me from a dead sleep.
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
I think my sighting as a child may have something to do with my current abilities
Waterloo · IA, USA
Swift moving metallic orb, traveling East to West.
Des Moines · IA, USA
craft hovering over Des Moines River in Iowa
Palo · IA, USA
A bright light floated slowly ( and silently) over the barn.
Elkader · IA, USA
What I and my wife seen that night on are way home from a night out. It wasn't anything from man, and it's not new to me. It was a cume
Decatur · IA, USA
It continued on straight path about 100' in air for about 8 seconds. then went straight up for about 2 seconds and out of sight.
Decatur City · IA, USA
static electric shocks felt on the short hairs of my body
Glidden · IA, USA
Silver disk motionless in the sky.
Fairfield · IA, USA
I was pastor of a rural church. One of the members of the congregation and I were leaving a Bible study when we noticed a strange cigar
Osage · IA, USA
The ship seemed to be looking for something.
Iowa City · IA, USA
A slow moving white glowing object moved south to north across the night sky and seemed to be move almost directly overhead of us. It
Shellsburg · IA, USA
Black v shape no sound verry slow and low
Akron · IA, USA
I may have had a close encounter of the 3rd time in 1983 that I did not remember until a specific event happened that triggered the mem
Glidden · IA, USA
Saw star like object fly stright horizontal and vertical lines with 90 degree angels at all turns.
Mason City · IA, USA
While helping on paper rout, early morning, right orange globe went down off to my right.
Vinton · IA, USA
It was Black as night, triangle shaped, with three lights underneath one in each corne
Davenport · IA, USA
strange colered lights hovered before speeding away.
Maquoketa · IA, USA
OBJECT APPEREAD WAS DIM GOT BRIGHT WENT EAST REAPPERED SAME SPOT REPEATED SAME THING