Fireball over Urbandale, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Witnessed Large Fireball at dusk was the size of a 50 cent piece held at arms length in the west.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2005-11-04 → 2005-11-21
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September 20, 2021 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
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I was walking near the local mall with my friend and we were going to our favorite smoke spot when I looked in the sky and thought the sky was pretty so I took a picture so I could draw it later which isn’t uncommon since I’m an artist. Later that night after I was sober I noticed a white glowing saucer shaped object in the sky in that picture. It wasn’t a lense flare, drone, plane, bird, or helicopter and when zoomed in it looked suspiciously like one of the hundreds of other ufo pictures. I’m curious as to what this thing I accidentally caught while walking to go and smoke was.
December 4, 2020 · 6:45 AM · FORMATION
Urbandale, IA
At approximately 6:45pm, I walked outside with my family. We saw at least 20 lights in a line move in unison. The lights disappeared as quick as they appeared. And at 6:47pm they disappeared completely.
November 8, 2015 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Urbandale, IA
I was doing my job walking dogs when I saw three lights in a diagonal pattern shoot across the sky. Way too fast to be planes/helicopter, it wasn't going straight up so it wasn't fireworks. It was straight across the sky. It shot past super super fast, and then almost immediately dispersed into the night. About 10 minutes later about 4 helicopters showed up around the area. the dog i was walking looked up at the object then went about its business.
November 8, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Urbandale, IA
Witness provides no contact information. PD
November 4, 2014 · 11:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Urbandale, IA
2 objects. saw what i thought was a very large gray/blueish bird. couldn't see the body or head, just the glimmer of the wings i think, but i couldn't figure out what it was. from my 5 o'clock what looked like a light weight object almost glided by. it was silent with no vapor trail. low altitude, fast. out of view in seconds. was a longer triangle shaped. with lights connected with what looked like lightbars. 3-4 lightson each side with 1-2 at the back/base of object. there was a lighter haze/shimmer around the triangle, in the shape of a larger triangle. you almost see through it but you could tell it was there.